How many ‘live’ lessons are your kids getting in lockdown?
Discussion
My daughter in year 9 has just been advised by her school that fewer than half of her remote learning lessons will be live with a teacher. The majority of her lessons will just be watching videos (not of her teachers) in her own time.
Is this normal? Seems a bit poor to me that the teachers are only giving “live’ lessons for less than half the time than they would if physically in school.
What are the levels for other people?
Thanks.
Is this normal? Seems a bit poor to me that the teachers are only giving “live’ lessons for less than half the time than they would if physically in school.
What are the levels for other people?
Thanks.
Year 7 London comp.
Mixed bag really.
I think one class or so seems to not happen, every other day or so. Today lots off gaps but that might be unusual.
Some video watching but it is the exception. PE they had to follow a video, quite funny to watch but it worked well
Eavesdropped on maths, Spanish and geography today and sounded like the teachers had nailed it; a normal lesson but just online.
Mixed bag really.
I think one class or so seems to not happen, every other day or so. Today lots off gaps but that might be unusual.
Some video watching but it is the exception. PE they had to follow a video, quite funny to watch but it worked well
Eavesdropped on maths, Spanish and geography today and sounded like the teachers had nailed it; a normal lesson but just online.
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Our lad was in year 6 when the first lockdown happened. Got sent home with a few sheets of homework to complete. Granted as it's the last year of primary they don't do much in the way of lessons, but mostly preparing them for secondary school, but none of that happened.
Now he's in year 7 and the home schooling is via a ridiculously complicated to access portal where there's a mixture of worksheets and short recorded lessons and then worksheets to be uploaded.
Good one we found today. Science powerpoint to follow through and then then questions to be submitted. However one of the slides as a couple of links to youtube videos on cells. Click the link............YouTube is blocked by the portal
Our lad was in year 6 when the first lockdown happened. Got sent home with a few sheets of homework to complete. Granted as it's the last year of primary they don't do much in the way of lessons, but mostly preparing them for secondary school, but none of that happened.
Now he's in year 7 and the home schooling is via a ridiculously complicated to access portal where there's a mixture of worksheets and short recorded lessons and then worksheets to be uploaded.
Good one we found today. Science powerpoint to follow through and then then questions to be submitted. However one of the slides as a couple of links to youtube videos on cells. Click the link............YouTube is blocked by the portal
Interesting topic. I felt extremely let down by teachers in the last lockdown.
It feels better this time around for my kids (year 3 and 7) but absolutely zero live teaching. In the last lockdown we had minimal work given so turned into teachers ourselves finding works and classes for the kids to complete.
I will be honest and I am not sure what the teachers and teaching assistants are doing. I know they need to look after keyworker kids, but surely a TA does that whilst the teacher does at least some live lessons??
It feels better this time around for my kids (year 3 and 7) but absolutely zero live teaching. In the last lockdown we had minimal work given so turned into teachers ourselves finding works and classes for the kids to complete.
I will be honest and I am not sure what the teachers and teaching assistants are doing. I know they need to look after keyworker kids, but surely a TA does that whilst the teacher does at least some live lessons??
mike9009 said:
Interesting topic. I felt extremely let down by teachers in the last lockdown.
It feels better this time around for my kids (year 3 and 7) but absolutely zero live teaching. In the last lockdown we had minimal work given so turned into teachers ourselves finding works and classes for the kids to complete.
I will be honest and I am not sure what the teachers and teaching assistants are doing. I know they need to look after keyworker kids, but surely a TA does that whilst the teacher does at least some live lessons??
Ours have gone for teaching "equity". Pupils in school get the same work packages as those at home. No active teaching; monitoring by TAs. It feels better this time around for my kids (year 3 and 7) but absolutely zero live teaching. In the last lockdown we had minimal work given so turned into teachers ourselves finding works and classes for the kids to complete.
I will be honest and I am not sure what the teachers and teaching assistants are doing. I know they need to look after keyworker kids, but surely a TA does that whilst the teacher does at least some live lessons??
Teachers away building tomorrows "pack". No live video. No calls.
Having seen the pack and the 90 second video I am sure I could have built the same in less than 2 hours given access to the curriculum.
Is Ofsted going to be getting involved in a lot of these instances then? (And should they?)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tes.com/news/coro...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tes.com/news/coro...
Gavin Williamson said:
"We have set out clear legally binding requirements for schools to provide high-quality remote education. This is mandatory for all state-funded schools and will be enforced by Ofsted.
"We expect schools to provide between three and five hours' teaching a day, depending on the child's age. If parents feel that their child's school is not providing a suitable remote education, they should first raise their concerns with the teacher or headteacher and, failing that, report the matter to Ofsted
"We expect schools to provide between three and five hours' teaching a day, depending on the child's age. If parents feel that their child's school is not providing a suitable remote education, they should first raise their concerns with the teacher or headteacher and, failing that, report the matter to Ofsted
johnboy1975 said:
Is Ofsted going to be getting involved in a lot of these instances then? (And should they?)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tes.com/news/coro...
How is "teaching" defined? Live streaming? Bundles of work equating to 3-5 hours? A bunch of links?https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tes.com/news/coro...
Gavin Williamson said:
"We have set out clear legally binding requirements for schools to provide high-quality remote education. This is mandatory for all state-funded schools and will be enforced by Ofsted.
"We expect schools to provide between three and five hours' teaching a day, depending on the child's age. If parents feel that their child's school is not providing a suitable remote education, they should first raise their concerns with the teacher or headteacher and, failing that, report the matter to Ofsted
"We expect schools to provide between three and five hours' teaching a day, depending on the child's age. If parents feel that their child's school is not providing a suitable remote education, they should first raise their concerns with the teacher or headteacher and, failing that, report the matter to Ofsted
I'm teaching languages at a pretty rough academy in the North East.
Our internet is hopeless. It's completely out of the question that we could be on video or that the kids could.
We're setting differentiated lessons that are going live at the normal time. I'm greeting and welcoming the kids, trying to make it fun. The connection dropped this morning so I grabbed google classroom on my phone to keep going but the building's like a lead-lined sarcophagus. I'm fielding problems in the car on my break.
I looked after my students. A maximum of half showed up over 5 classes i taught today. Please don't suppose that this situation is easy for teachers.
Our internet is hopeless. It's completely out of the question that we could be on video or that the kids could.
We're setting differentiated lessons that are going live at the normal time. I'm greeting and welcoming the kids, trying to make it fun. The connection dropped this morning so I grabbed google classroom on my phone to keep going but the building's like a lead-lined sarcophagus. I'm fielding problems in the car on my break.
I looked after my students. A maximum of half showed up over 5 classes i taught today. Please don't suppose that this situation is easy for teachers.
My wife is a Primary teacher. All the teaching staff at her school are giving full day's live lessons from their classrooms. Parents were at the school yesterday in order to collect books, learning resources and lesson schedules.
The Head is insisting that lessons will continue and is trying to stick to regular timetable as much as possible.
The pupils have been asked to wear their uniforms whilst taking part in their remote learning in order to maintain some sort of "normality"
The Head is insisting that lessons will continue and is trying to stick to regular timetable as much as possible.
The pupils have been asked to wear their uniforms whilst taking part in their remote learning in order to maintain some sort of "normality"
CoolC said:
Zero
Our lad was in year 6 when the first lockdown happened. Got sent home with a few sheets of homework to complete. Granted as it's the last year of primary they don't do much in the way of lessons, but mostly preparing them for secondary school, but none of that happened.
Now he's in year 7 and the home schooling is via a ridiculously complicated to access portal where there's a mixture of worksheets and short recorded lessons and then worksheets to be uploaded.
Good one we found today. Science powerpoint to follow through and then then questions to be submitted. However one of the slides as a couple of links to youtube videos on cells. Click the link............YouTube is blocked by the portal
So straightaway your lad messages the teacher to get the link, opens it in another browser. Last night I spent ages learning windows recording functions to record a video and upload it so that all my students can just click on it. Our lad was in year 6 when the first lockdown happened. Got sent home with a few sheets of homework to complete. Granted as it's the last year of primary they don't do much in the way of lessons, but mostly preparing them for secondary school, but none of that happened.
Now he's in year 7 and the home schooling is via a ridiculously complicated to access portal where there's a mixture of worksheets and short recorded lessons and then worksheets to be uploaded.
Good one we found today. Science powerpoint to follow through and then then questions to be submitted. However one of the slides as a couple of links to youtube videos on cells. Click the link............YouTube is blocked by the portal
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