"Every step of this writing piece is a mini-lesson!" my co-teacher sighed this afternoon. We had just spent an hour and a half repeating a unit's worth of class instruction to the 21 individual students in the class, and we were tired and a little aggravated. Generally, it seems like that is where these sixth graders are. They were second graders when schools shut down for COVID and third graders when we started virtually the next fall, and so they were on the verge of independent learning in school but required a lot of hand-holding and supervision at home.
And so here we are: many of these kids have learned that there is no need to listen to whole-class instruction, because before too long an adult will come and explain it to them personally. And that is pretty much what we did.
So now the question is, how to break the cycle?
Stay tuned.
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