On November 5, Cobb Schools will be opening high schools around the District, completing the final Phase of its three-part Reopening Plan. Elementary and middle school students that chose face-to-face have already been welcomed back to classrooms in Phases One and Two during October.
High School families were evenly split between those that chose face-to-face instruction and those that decided to continue remote learning. But either way, the District's more than 35,000 high schools students will be receiving the same education thanks to Cobb's amazing educators and CTLS.
High school teachers will be utilizing "shared synchronous instruction," which simply means that students will be seeing and hearing the same lesson regardless of location. Students in the classroom and students at home will be learning the same material at the same time. This makes it possible for teachers to reach both groups as one class, without having to teach two separate lessons.
Students will be taught the class material as a group at the beginning of the lesson. Remote students will see and hear the lesson though a laptop camera and a Bluetooth microphone worn by the instructor.
Students will then be required to work through comprehension material individually while continuing to have access to the instructor for questions. Group projects are also a possibility during this time thanks to online technology.
Teachers will wrap up the lesson to the group as a whole with concluding/takeaway statements to reinforce the day's material. As the time period winds down, face-to-face and remote learners will have both learned the same lesson and will have worked together as a class. The lesson will also be archived on CTLS that all students can access for review.
More information on Cobb's Phase Three Reopening Plan can be found here.
Note: Every Friday for the rest of the 2020-2021 school year, Cobb Schools will provide numbers of COVID-19 cases which have been confirmed by the Cobb & Douglas Public Health Department. District totals and school-by-school totals can be found here.
