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How could an individual with a Master’s Teaching Credential help tutor or homeschool kids whose schools are being closed due to the corona virus?

Asked by Kardamom (33494points) March 12th, 2020 from iPhone

A friend of mine who lives in the LA area has a Master’s Degree in Education (a teaching credential) and has worked as a teacher in the past, but has mostly been pursuing an acting career for the last couple of years.

As of today, I suggested to him that he might want to consider temporarily tutoring, or homeschooling children whose schools are likely to be shut down in the following days, and weeks, due to the Corona Virus.

I got a call tonight from one of my other friends, who has grade school kids, and she was sent a notice tonight, saying that her kids school is shutting down on Monday (March 15, 2020) She and I are going to set up a makeshift classroom in her living room for her kids, and possibly a few neighbor kids. Just a non-credentialed, but smart mom, making sure her kids don’t fall behind. That’s what gave me the idea of suggesting to my other friend, with the teaching credential, that he might be able to help some other parents, whose kids schools will be shut down, temporarily.

This is all happening so fast, but I want to help him figure out the best way to go about this. I thought maybe some of you folks would have some ideas of what information I should be looking up. I do not have a teaching background, so I’m kind of flailing around.

Thank you all in advance.

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Sagacious's avatar

I bet he can figure it out for himself with that masters degree and all. The idea is to keep people away from each other as much as possible. So every night he would go get exposed and the next day meet up with the kids again. I don’t think so. Maybe he could be on email standby for help. He could do that kids no matter where they are.

Lightlyseared's avatar

Skype? Or some other group streaming service?

canidmajor's avatar

The schools around here are setting up for online schooling, I thought that was available there.
Check out the homeschooling resources online also, they are many and varied.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

They can design YouTube educational videos. Or start a new website.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Can he set up something with Zoom? Use the basic free package. It can support at least 10 users. That is probably plenty.

LostInParadise's avatar

Is your friend the teacher expecting to get paid? Depending on the amount of time he would be putting in, that might require a fair number of students to cover the costs, in which case going online would definitely be necessary to avoid health risks.

si3tech's avatar

I am hearing about online classes and online conventions and meetings.

Darth_Algar's avatar

With him having a master’s degree in education and having worked as a teacher in the past, he’d probably have a better notion of how to do that than I would.

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