A quality education should not be differentiated by a non-pandemic education or a pandemic education. Quality should be a constant regardless of learning conditions. Curricular integrity and accountability are essential characteristics of a quality education. Continue reading
Quality Indicators of Remote Education: Curricular Integrity and Accountability
Quality Indicators of Remote Education: Mastery of Time
Quality remote instruction uses focused teaching within limits of student on-screen attention and knows when learning requires a student to work offline. Teachers who abuse their time with students will lose their students. Continue reading
Quality Indicators of Remote Ed – Personal and Daily Connections With Every Child
Distance is both spatial and relational. In-school teaching to at-home children is keeps us apart, but we overcome space by personal and daily contacts. Continue reading
Pandemic + Concurrent Teaching + Exhaustion and Fatigue = Change the School Calendar
How many things in our school life that we consider unchangeable will need to change before we survive the pandemic? How we use school time and days as a part of a positive andhealthy pandemic solution is worth considering. Continue reading
Piloting Schools in the Time of COVID
Monolithic thinking in the Time of COVID is unrealistic – it will fail regardless of its premise. Schools need to monitor and adjust programming for health and safety with programming for a quality education for all children. Course corrections are necessary. Continue reading
Non-Academic Skill Sets Required for Remote Learning
Student success in remote education will not be written using old assumptions. Self-motivation, self-direction, time management, focus, and how to ask for assistance are required for success in remote schooling. Continue reading
A Reading Reformation
Reading in the Time of COVID is not optional. Coincidental with the pandemic is a significant reform causing teachers to reconsider their abilities to teach all children to be effective readers. Continue reading
If Not Taught At School, Then Where?
Is school responsible for teaching children to understand and practice basic human values? Values like honesty, personal integrity, respect for others, and civility; you can add or subtract what you believe are basic values. Isn’t this the role of a … Continue reading
Standards and Rigor Within Remote Education
Remote education needs to serve today’s need for continuing education for all children AND be a preparation of all children for educational success in the future. Remote education requires instruction to be standards-based and rigorous. Continue reading
Remote Ed is Prime Time For Independent Learning
School is a busy day and place with little allowance for children to work independently and at their own pace. Remote education is prime time for children to work in ways they cannot at school – independent of other children. Continue reading