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May 2020 SuccessS. Salyer is one of our students. She had started BSCTC Skills U just before we closed for the pandemic. She agreed to do Zoom classes for instruction, but she was not overly enthusiastic about it. For our first Zoom session, we were going over integer operations, exponents, and roots, and using the calculator. I used the whiteboard feature in Zoom and also the annotation options on different worksheets. By the end of the session, she was catching on very quickly. She told me that she had never realized how much instruction you could actually do over the internet, and she was excited to keep going. It was eye-opening to me as an instructor as well. I was somewhat skeptical of how remote instruction would go, but I was really impressed with all the things we could do through Zoom. (L. Tackett)
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December 2020 SuccessIn June and July, I worked with four students via Zoom who only needed math left to earn their GED®. Three of them had taken math multiples times and had failed it. We had Zoom classes three times a week, and each class was an hour long. I recorded the sessions and put them in our Google Classroom, along with practice worksheets and notes, so students could go back and review if they wanted to or had to miss a class. If a student did have to miss, I would try to do a makeup Zoom session with that individual student. As the students got closer to their test dates, I did individual Zoom review sessions with each student as opposed to the group sessions. I think all the students were skeptical of online learning at the beginning, but by the end they were all really impressed by how much could be done in an online environment. Three of the four students earned their GED® in early July. One student took the test but didn’t pass. This particular student was very intelligent, but she had several small children at home. Our Zoom sessions were often interrupted by the kids. When our learning center opened back up, I recommended that she take classes at the center. She did, and she earned her GED® in August. (L. Tackett)