Barbour, M. K. (2020, November). What should have happened in September? And how can we fix it now? [Presentation]. Emergency Home Learning Summit 2020. https://www.homelearningsummit.com/talks/what-should-have-happened-in-september-and-how-can-we-fix-it-now/

2. What Should Have Happened
in September?
And How Can We Fix It Now?
Michael K. Barbour
Touro University California

7. What happened in the Spring?

16. What has happened in the Fall?

41. What should have happened in
the Fall?

45. Departments of Education
• provide guidance early
• examine curriculum for continuity
• re-consider assessment
School Districts
• provide guidance early
• address digital equity
• decide on standardized tools
• provide professional development
Schools
• understand community realities
• address digital equity
• provide professional development

46. What can we do about it now?

47. Canadians should expect to live
with the current inconveniences
for the next two to three years.

48. “I think it will be easily by the end of
2021. And perhaps even into the
next year, before we start having
some semblances of normality.”

51. A Word of Caution
Lack of teacher preparation programs
• 1.3% of universities in the US provided any systematic training
in their pre-service or in-service teacher education programs
(Kennedy & Archambault, 2012)
• in a replication study, it was found that 4.1% of indicated
offering a field experience in an online setting (Archambault et
al., 2016)
• approximately one third of Canadian universities provided
some form of systematic training to their pre-service or in-
service teacher education programs (Archibald et al., 2020)
Lack of professional development
• less than 40% of online teachers reported to receiving any
professional development before they began teaching online
(Rice & Dawley, 2007)

53. Departments of Education
• provide guidance early
• examine curriculum for continuity
• re-consider assessment
School Districts
• provide guidance early
• address digital equity
• decide on standardized tools
• provide professional development
Schools
• understand community realities
• address digital equity
• provide professional development

54. Departments of Education
• provide guidance early
• examine curriculum for continuity
• re-consider assessment
School Districts
• provide guidance early
• address digital equity
• decide on standardized tools
• provide professional development
Schools
• understand community realities
• address digital equity
• provide professional development

55. Your
Questions
and
Comments

56. Associate Professor of Instructional Design
College of Education & Health Services
Touro University California
mkbarbour@gmail.com
http://www.michaelbarbour.com