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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

What it's like teaching remotely in an empty classroom | EdTech - TES News

Charlotte Brunton, secondary English department head at the British School of Gran Canaria observes, Teachers at one international school are delivering lessons in empty classrooms - with students watching live from home.

Teachers at one international school are delivering lessons in empty classrooms - with students watching live from home
Photo: Tes  
 





We were hoping to open our school doors on 1 September.

Devastatingly, though, we received news on the afternoon of 31 August that our well-laid plans were to be postponed for at least two weeks due to a rise in coronavirus cases.

This meant only one thing: a return to virtual learning for our 650 students. However, rather than doing this from home, this time things would be a little different...

Not lecturing

Teachers are also learning, adapting and improving.

Many of us realised that we attempted to turn into university lecturers when teaching online previously, thinking we had to fill every silence and bore our students silly in the process.

We are now planning lessons where there are clear learning sequences.   

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Source: TES News