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"Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things. Cal" State or public? I think remote learning offerings are highly variable even within towns and cities let alone different parts of the UK. My 14 yr old is struggling to maintain any motivation after logging on two days in a row to find no work from teachers. Yesterday he managed to spend an hour watching some physics topics on khan academy but today couldn't find the motivation. It's just not fair on kids with issues like dyspraxia and ADHD to expect them to self direct their learning when they might struggle in the best of times as it is  | |||
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"Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things. Cal ------ State or public? I think remote learning offerings are highly variable even within towns and cities let alone different parts of the UK. My 14 yr old is struggling to maintain any motivation after logging on two days in a row to find no work from teachers. Yesterday he managed to spend an hour watching some physics topics on khan academy but today couldn't find the motivation. It's just not fair on kids with issues like dyspraxia and ADHD to expect them to self direct their learning when they might struggle in the best of times as it is "We are a very semi-rural "comprehensive" school, we have very little money but are committed to doing our best to provide a "proper education". Sure some teachers are better at it than others, but by sticking to the normal school timetable, the kids get some kind of normality. Cal | |||
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"Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things. Cal ------ State or public? I think remote learning offerings are highly variable even within towns and cities let alone different parts of the UK. My 14 yr old is struggling to maintain any motivation after logging on two days in a row to find no work from teachers. Yesterday he managed to spend an hour watching some physics topics on khan academy but today couldn't find the motivation. It's just not fair on kids with issues like dyspraxia and ADHD to expect them to self direct their learning when they might struggle in the best of times as it is
We are a very semi-rural "comprehensive" school, we have very little money but are committed to doing our best to provide a "proper education". Sure some teachers are better at it than others, but by sticking to the normal school timetable, the kids get some kind of normality.
Cal"That's amazing. Just goes to show what a difference a real passion and enthusiasm for teaching makes   | |||
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"Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things. Cal ------ State or public? I think remote learning offerings are highly variable even within towns and cities let alone different parts of the UK. My 14 yr old is struggling to maintain any motivation after logging on two days in a row to find no work from teachers. Yesterday he managed to spend an hour watching some physics topics on khan academy but today couldn't find the motivation. It's just not fair on kids with issues like dyspraxia and ADHD to expect them to self direct their learning when they might struggle in the best of times as it is
We are a very semi-rural "comprehensive" school, we have very little money but are committed to doing our best to provide a "proper education". Sure some teachers are better at it than others, but by sticking to the normal school timetable, the kids get some kind of normality.
Cal"Good on you and well done for proving the support and commitment the kids need more than ever now. We can’t expect them to be that self disciplined at school age, not many kids are, they need parents, guidance and support to access what’s out there for them, not always easy in these difficult times I know. | |||
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"We teach a full timetable, that’s 5 lessons a day, for all our students, via zoom. Participation is about 70%. Ok , it’s not as good as proper lessons, but it removes the onus for parents to home school, and we can probably do about 60% of what we can do in class. The biggest problem is assessing how well the learning is going, we’ll see when we all get back into school. We are secondary though, I feel for my primary colleagues, teaching 7/8 year olds must be very hard" We've done online, time controlled assessments instead of traditional exams. We did them in June and just done again last week for Jan. They work. I'd suggest the big exam boards in the UK take a look, because scrapping all forms of external assessment can't happen forever. | |||
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"We have too, snag is they are a bit self selecting. It’s impossible to get all students to do them, the keen and motivated do, the less keen don’t. We have a fair few trying to access our work on mobile phone too, which puts them at a significant disadvantage" A lot of ours wrote out the exam answers by hand, photographed the paper and submitted a PDF on their phones too. It's do-able. If you read above, were dealing with students all over the world and some are in very poorly resourced countries, in the middle of nowhere, with limited equipment. Usually they'd come to us and use our equipment but can't this year. Office Lens is a really good phone app for quickly snapping pics of paper work and converting to PDF for then emailing or uploading from a phone or tablet. | |||
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"I need to know how to write, edit, add stuff to a pdf file. " With what I'm referring to, you snap a picture of the page(s) using the Office Lens app and then click save as PDF. Et voilá. There's plenty of self guide thingies online too. My lot are not English native speakers so they're doing this in a second or third language. | |||
"I need to know how to write, edit, add stuff to a pdf file. With what I'm referring to, you snap a picture of the page(s) using the Office Lens app and then click save as PDF. Et voilá. There's plenty of self guide thingies online too. My lot are not English native speakers so they're doing this in a second or third language." Thank you | |||
"I did read your post, and I do accept your point. Main problem, to be honest, is lack of motivation, rather than kit" I could put them in touch with a Ugandan lad who had to scarper quick from Kampala during election violence last week or the lad from Congo who had a horrific back story. It's interesting how such things motivate those with little. | |||
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