Student Removes Teacher

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6 thoughts on “Student Removes Teacher”

  1. Oh, Ben, I appreciate you throwing all your weight at the problem. I’m flattered. But really, it’s an IT problem with my school district. They’re figuring it out and working on it fast. Thanks anyways!

    My next Google Meets tweak I want to figure out: how to mute all students with one click.

  2. Well I want to throw all my focus on it if it turned out that it’s not an IT program, but rather the act of a student. I want to get ahead of this because I am talking privately right now with lots of teachers about online teaching.

  3. It could very well have been a student removing me from the class that first day of class on Tuesday. It most likely was. But IT in my school district quickly got busy to fix some things with their Google Meets account: 1) Giving power to teachers to mute and remove students and 2) taking this muting and removing power away from students.

  4. I get that. I just have a fire in me to never let a student get away with anything inappropriate.

    It’s a good and bad quality. In our profession, probably more bad than good. Got to learn to let things slide. It’s good advice for these days, now with the Left Coast wildfires and 200,000 deaths. I want to fight. But that’s not the lesson here.

    But you can see why I’ve been so intense here on the PLC over all these years. I hate shitty teaching and I think those who won’t change even though the research is as plain as the nose on their faces just need to stop using outdated methods. I’ll get over it. I don’t have your sense of calm. Anyone who knows Sean, his demeanor, knows what I am saying.

    How else could he fight the “Chicago Fight”, one that makes the messed up situations in other parts of our country in schools look like child’s play. That’s why he’s there, in the streets for so many years now, protecting the kids. I’m not there yet. I’ll get there, probably in another lifetime.

    Wait…another lifetime as a language teacher? Oh hell no. Nope. I’d rather work in air traffic control.

    One thing is certain. We need to give our kids a better product in their language instruction.

  5. Alisa Shapiro-Rosenberg

    Different schools/districts are using different videoconferencing platforms. Our district is using Zoom and even bought a district account.
    Regular Zoom features include ‘Mute all’ as well as disable chat, disable annotation (I had kids scribbling on my visual!) and other host controls. We have access to the polling feature. Certain machines (with quad processors!) allow the T to see up to 49 participants at once/on a single screen…
    I think the various video-conf platforms (Google Meets & MS Teams among them) are beefing up teacher/host controls and options, knowing how many folks are relying on these platforms for teaching, and knowing that kids are endlessly crafty. I had a 4th grader turn off his video so that only his name appeared on his tile. Then he went in and ‘renamed’ himself with a message for another kid in the Zoom. All this as a workaround for the disabled ‘Chat.’ Good thing the Zoom host has a ‘Remove from meeting’ button. When you remove someone, they lose the opportunity to return to that meeting.

  6. I would just look on Youtube for any tutorials on how to manage that. There are a lot of tutorials popping up.

    My first week one of my Zoom sessions was “Zoom-bombed”. It was my fault though, a number of students entered the room with names I didn’t recognize. Since it was a freshman class I naively gave them the benefit of the doubt and figured they were using a parent’s cell or something.

    One student played inappropriate sound effects and the other just asked a rude question. Now I do not let anyone in without first and last name and that I know who they are.

    My school is hybrid but once a week (Wednesday) we are all e-learning.

    Actually with the Invisibles System I don’t see the kids being disadvantaged at all in regards to quality and quantity of input. I am doing all One Word Image and Invisibles.

    I am doing the Invisibles System in all levels I teach- even Spanish 3 “Honors”. Anyone who does not believe the Invisibles can be done for upper levels should check out Mike Peto’s “One Word Image for Upper Levels” post. It most definitely can be done.

    Another thing I do is revist stories and re-tell videos from two years ago. Some of these students that I have in Spanish 3, I had in Spanish 1 2 years ago.

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