How Canada's largest school board is planning for the potential return of students to classrooms in September
Some of the models under consideration at the Toronto District School Board involve changing the way certain subjects are taught, while others raise public health and safety concerns among industry observers who fear COVID-19 will continue to present an imminent threat in the months ahead.What has the provincial government requested?
Option 2: Same class sizes, but with the school day shortened by 48 minutes to allow teachers to have some prep time at the end of the day. Bird said this model would lower the cost to $98 million. Option 5: Resuming pre-pandemic class sizes, but with additional, unspecified health and safety protocols. Bird said this approach is the one the borad currently favours.
No. Bird said several subjects will have to be delivered differently than they were prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief among these is French, he said, noting there aren't currently enough qualified teachers to staff a higher number of smaller classes. But that doesn't mean the course would disappear, he stressed, noting the board is looking at options such as virtual lessons delivered to in-person classes.
Pascal said the Toronto board projections clearly demonstrate the need for significantly higher government funding, a view shared by the head of a labour group representing the city's elementary school teachers.
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