Remote education during COVID 19
Where a class or small number of pupils need to self-isolate, or there is a local or national lockdown requiring pupils to remain at home, The Department for Education expects schools to have the capacity to offer immediate remote education.
The expectations for remote learning are as follows:
- Set assignments so that pupils have meaningful and ambitious work each day in a number of different subjects across the curriculum.
- Teach a planned and well-sequenced curriculum so that knowledge and skills are built incrementally, with a good level of clarity about what is intended to be taught and practised in each subject.
- Provide frequent, clear explanations of new content, delivered by a teacher in the school or through high-quality curriculum resources and/or videos.
- Gauge how well pupils are progressing through the curriculum, using questions and other suitable tasks and set a clear expectation on how regularly teachers will check work.
- Enable teachers to adjust the pace or difficulty of what is being taught in response to questions or assessments, including, where necessary, revising material or simplifying explanations to ensure pupils’ understanding.
- Plan a programme that is of equivalent length to the core teaching pupils would receive in school, ideally including daily contact with teachers.
For Key Stage 1, three hours of remote education must be provided. The DfE said provision will include “both recorded or live direct teaching time, and time for pupils to complete tasks and assignments independently”.
Key stage 2 pupils should be provided with four hours remote education a day
It is more important than ever to ensure that our students are equipped with the skills to be able to work and learn remotely. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of online learning for children.
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