jimmytwotimes 2013 wrote: » First of the Croke Park hours for us this week. We sitting in school for "remote" meeting.
Teach30 wrote: » Camera off and I’d get some planning/correcting done!
jimmytwotimes 2013 wrote: » We have to sit in groups in rooms with one laptop hooked to a projector
wirelessdude01 wrote: » The slippage the issue. Too tight you can't talk properly, end up too warm, slight headaches.
Jonathan Mushy Ring wrote: » Yes, I have constant headaches from the pull on my ears
French Toast wrote: » Got the tail end of a piece on News Talk that Dublin colleges are likely to be encouraged to provide 100% of coursework online. No such option for secondary schools.
Bananaleaf wrote: » It has been okay in my school up to this week. But now that the students are starting to drop out with symptoms or because they were a close contact, it is starting to get messy. Tried the live streaming home, it's just too impractical. The sheer frustration due to how much time is being wasted is really starting to get to me: 5mins gone getting to class 5mins gone santising desk, computer, hands 5mins gone waiting for computer to load (for the class in front of me, if it works) and open up laptop (for the live streamers) 5mins gone taking register, setting class up to work FIFTEEN MINUTES OF TEACHING, interrupted by about a dozen requests for trips to the toilet 5mins gone to tidy up, log out of computers, sanitise desk and pack laptop away And god forbid you might need to make a pit stop at the toilet or anything along the way ... you're down to 10mins then! Not all classes are that bad, in some I get a good half hr done but they are honestly few and far between Was worried about the students breaking equipment in their base rooms when they were unsupervised... I was worried about the wrong people. All of a sudden, now that teachers don't have their own rooms, they seem to have lost all respect for the desktop computers and projectors. I don't even know how they manage to do the sh1t they do but the IT people are about to quit - fixing a problem on Monday for it to be f**ked again by Wednesday...
rainbowtrout wrote: » I don't envy you Bananaleaf. We have stuck with teachers having their own base rooms and loading the timetable with doubles so there is less movement. It's working pretty well. Most teachers have a base room so are not spending half the day logging in and out of computers. We were all given a chromebook the first week back so they are fast and everyone has their own. Students are relatively fast at cleaning their desks at the end of each class now and we have a one way system in place so to be fair to them they are turning up to class fast, because they can't hang around on corridors.
maynooth_rules wrote: » This is a major issue. Teaching time virtually cut in half. Yet 6th years have been given a very very minor help with changes for LC exam. I am so worried for that cohort
Random sample wrote: » When is a close contact not a close contact? When the contact happens in a school.https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0917/1165854-drogheda-school-covid-19/ This is very worrying for teachers.
wirelessdude01 wrote: » So if there was a mistake made then I think I the HSE need to be very transparent and be open about what the issue was. Something stinks about this story.
History Queen wrote: » Agreed. Either the app works or it doesn't. If not why is this not public knowledge? If it does work, they are basically saying that too many teachers marked as close contacts is too disruptive so they're dismissing the data. Either scenario is bad and needs explanation.
"more than 30 of its teachers were alerted yesterday via the Covid tracker app that they were close contacts of a virus case."
jayo76 wrote: » Is there any teachers here who are not part of the S and S scheme, took the option to pay to opt out? f so have you signed up to the supplementary scheme this year that allows teachers to opt in as a response to the pandemic? In our school I and a lot of teachers opted out of the scheme when they had the option and have decided not to make ourselves available for the extra paid scheme this year. In recent staff meetings management has labelled us teachers who are not making ourselves available for the extra paid S and S as being non committed to the school and our students. This really hurt me I have to say as I feel that over 20 years I have shown voluntary committment to my students wellbeing each and every day in a huge variety of ways and will continue to do so and yet now because I won't opt in to a paid scheme I am not committed. A lot of the reasons I and other staff will not opt in are due to the very strained relationship that exist between staff and senior management and the lack of respect we feel. I totaly understand how that might seem petty to many in the current situation but I am happier to do what I can still every day for my students wellbeing through my classroom roll and in what ever way I can without opting in to paid scheme Am I wrong?
djemba djemba wrote: » https://www.asti.ie/news/asti-to-ballot-on-industrial-action/
km79 wrote: » What do we make of that ..........it will go down like a lead balloon
Smacruairi wrote: » Depends on if all the unions go on together... But they won't because the lectures and principals will want to be seen to be good little workers by the DES. So it'll be asti on their own.. Again.
