Home-based Learning Concerns

in Education4 years ago

During the closure of schools, teachers had to teach from home online.

Many parents were concerned about the effectiveness of such home-based learning since it was the first time that home-based learning was carried out with such long duration.

In the past, there was home-based learning for all schools to prepare for emergency like this but it was only about 2 to 4 times per year depending on respective school arrangement.


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As a teacher, it was really hard to keep track of all my students’ work especially the home environment tends to make them in the less serious mood.

I have never contacted so many parents daily but I had to contact them due to incomplete work of their children.

As I am teaching 11-year-old kids, many of them are not as self-directed in learning as I would hope for.

Many parents had to guide their kids at home and they may face frustrations especially they are working from home too.

It was a good reflection of how I can make things better when I get back to school after the lockdown.

When I can prepare them for the unexpected non-routine learning, learning will never be compromised regardless of the situation.

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Professional work outside the home or in and of the home, is not work, if it does not require effort. Work may be at times easy, but always requires one's effort. Times like this must be a new challenge for many in the education field. They say that the best approach to finding the best method of effective teaching in unique situations should be: Teaching is not about the teacher... it is about the student. It is not about the teacher's convenience but that of the child. It is child-centered, not teacher-centered. I believe that teaching is the noblest of professions. I admire you for choosing that profession. It requires a lot of self-giving. The life skills which children need to learn to prepare them for adulthood will be acquired in the home as well as in the classroom setting. I think that adapting successfully to change is a life skill. The best way to teach this is by example. How are parents and teachers adapting to the change from routine methods of teaching in the classroom? They say that one of the keys to success is learning to go through the change process as quick as possible. It has been several weeks now that kids are not in the classroom. For sure, parents and teachers hope with confidence that the children, too, are successfully adapting to the change so that the children continue to learn even with non-routine teaching methods.
@tipu curate

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Thank you very much for your quality comment as well as curating my post. You are right in how important our focus is on our students and how well we can nurture them to become useful citizens in future. It is challenging for all teachers around the world during Covid-19 but I believe all of us are doing our best to help every child in their learning.