“Must My Student Teach Herself?”
(This is an excerpt from a letter addressing common concerns and questions I sent to parents before school started.)
Absolutely not. At home, your student will watch one or two short videos in which I use the SmartBoard lesson I would traditionally have used in front of the class. She will see my colorful pens on the screen working out the example problems and see and hear me explaining the process. Your student has the luxury of rewinding the video to hear or see again the example in order to copy it carefully into her notes. Then, the video will offer a “try” problem similar to the example. I invite the students to pause the video at that point to give them time to try the problem on their own. They can press “play” when they are ready to check their own answer with my answer.