In this March 19, 2020 file photo, student Rachel Keenan takes a live class online at her home in San Francisco..
TORONTO -- Rachel Rosen doesn't even know what classes she'll be teaching in three weeks, let alone how she'll juggle preparing in-person and online lessons.
The province is giving parents the option to keep kids out of the classroom and have them learn from home, with materials provided by their schools. She said classtime will be divided up into synchronous learning, which is a more traditional lesson, and asynchronous learning, which would see students working independently.
The head of the union that represents many of the province's high school teachers said it's not just Rosen facing these kinds of issues. Many teachers in boards adopting the adapted model for secondary schools still don't know how they'll manage teaching students in class and creating online learning materials.
Complicating matters, he noted, is that different school boards are developing different plans for how in-class and online learning will be handled.
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