I observed an online class taught by Janis. The students in the classroom were enrolled for various courses, so Janis broke the teaching sessions into four different groups. I observed two of the groups in the first hour of the class.
I’m assuming that there are not a lot of students enrolled this summer. And as a result, there are joint classrooms that Janis has to teach. Since there are multiple classes in the same session, she has the students work on exercises in separate study rooms. I’m not sure if the format of the classes are conducted like this every day, but I did not see new material being taught to the students. Instead, Janis allocated half an hour for each group to tutor very small groups, and helped them with their exercises (perhaps it was exercise day). Because of this, the students had a lot of one-on-one time with Janis, and received detailed feedback from her. I also noticed that Janis spoke very slowly and enunciated every word carefully to help the students understand what she was saying. However, the students were beginners, so they had trouble understanding the questions that Janis had asked. Despite that, Janis was patient and repeated her questions slowly and precisely until they had understood.
It is unfortunate that multiple classes have to be merged into one, because Janis can only spend half an hour for each “class” to help her students. However, this method may be the best way to adapt to such a situation, and I learned the importance of having to be open to change teaching methods.