Rebecca Geoghegan discusses how lessons and learning might evolve through an increased virtual experience with her four stages of reimagining the classroom. When the closures were announced on the 18th March, most schools would say that they had an inkling it was coming. International news had led to much speculation and ‘loose’ plans being created […]
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It is coming up to the end of the school year and my thoughts are now starting to turn to the transition arrangements for the new Year 12s. Many questions are occupying my thoughts. How will they respond to being back in the classroom after so long? Will the extended break have had an impact […]
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Aprender a dudar es aprender a pensar (‘Learning to doubt is learning to think’). -Octavio Paz In March this year, school life as we know it shuddered to a halt, and as we write, when and under what guise it will fully return remains unclear. Over the past few months, teachers and students will have […]
Read moreCraig Barton looks at how both teachers and students will need time and patience in order to make the transition back into the classroom. Speaking of “unprecedented times” has become something of a cliché. And yet I know of no other phrase to better describe the period from when schools first closed because of the […]
Read moreGraham Elsdon looks at ways to help the new year 11 classes cope with post-lockdown English exam preparation The tentacles of the horrible virus are long and inevitably they have wrapped themselves around the world of education. Lives have been lost, the yearly rhythm has been lost and time has been lost. Leaving aside the […]
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How do we support key year groups, now and on our return to school? and what do we do for those who can’t return at the same time? These are the questions we all wish we knew the answers to, aren’t they? The truth is I don’t think that anyone has the magic fix, that […]
Read moreWhilst we’ve all been working hard to ensure we provide students with learning resources, we don’t really know how much they’ve learnt over the lockdown period. Here are some thoughts on what we might do when we’re back in school with our classes to help identify gaps and move forward in our teaching. Keep it […]
Read more It is safe to say that there will be a pressing urge to ‘get back to normal’ when schools resume. However, it will be important to make space for recovery work: the conversations, routines, and relationships that help a school flourish. It is also important to remember that there is likely to be a wider […]
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When schools shut on 20th March, teachers across the world were thrown into a whole new way of working. Whilst some schools have long used elements of online learning it was, on the whole, limited to the use of platforms to share homework tasks. And so, the learning curve began! What I want to focus […]
Read more The Covid-19 crisis has thrown up some very real obstacles for many students in terms of access to the curriculum. While some fortunate students may have been working fairly constantly online, others may have had patchy internet access, no personal device and the odd pdf here or there. The crisis has catapulted access and equity […]
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