With mounting financial pressures of unpaid fees and
continuing costs most schools have jumped onto the
bandwagon of providing online education. Whether real
learning is happening is a moot point.
School principals and academic coordinators are
pushing their teachers to “keep the students occupied”
so that at least one part of the
problem appears to be solved.
And in these pressured times, the
most that is happening is that
teachers are trying to replicate
what they know best, traditional
lecturing sessions- and are using
the same lesson plans in the
online sessions.
During this sudden transition, the
school leaders have had little time
to integrate the Institution’s own
core values for which their
institutions stand for. The
transition has led to the creation
of yet another online-enabled
school.
What about parents? What do
they feel about all that is
happening with their child’s
education? They see that their
children are not paying attention,
are distracted and on their own,
even if present in an online session. They are unsure of
what the child had learnt at the end of a session. The
kids are just a few feet away you see, not tucked away
in a classroom far away! And they don’t like what they
see! They see teachers unable to control the children,
total lack of discipline, children coming in and dropping
out of the sessions randomly, lot of background
distractions; in short a chaotic online class.
Screen time is more than 6+ hrs
Background noise; students leaving and entering classes at their will
About What They Have Learnt And Parents Concerned About Their Child’s Learning
hrs ONLINE SESSIONS
STUDENTS
CITIES
COURSES
We’d like to share a list of 10
critical and decisive insights
from our own experiences# to
make these sessions better &
more effective:
1. An Online Live session
should be for 25 minutes
ideally (at max of 40 minutes)
2. Teacher should focus on
clarifying about the difficult / Complex are as not
understood well by students
and should limit the
instruction time to 10 minutes.
This part of the Live Sessions
should be recorded
(especially the 10 mins of
teacher ’s part) & made
available for reference to
students, post live class.
3. Research shows that
children (especially upto ages
of 12) are better engaged with
familiar faces and voices.
They are distracted with
“indifferent content “ (some
non-curated arbitrary content
being displayed from Internet by unfamiliar people”
4. Form smaller Groups for live session (of 8-12 nos.
of Students), to ensure better engagement and
personalisation.
5. Create opportunities for student engagement time
- Each student should be able to get to talk /
present / demo about their work, at least for 1-2
minutes in each session, This helps students to also
feel connected with the rest in the group
6. Create engaging Micro-modules* each one of 8-12
minutes which can be completed by students on
their own, at their convenience post the live class,
7. Teacher to Communicate the deadlines and
expectations after each live session.
8. Schools management can the provide the critical
support for content curation and creation – either
via partners or via online freelancers to develop
content (production of videos, audio recording,
editing, animation as required).
9 .Focus should be on long term, which requires
investing In partnerships to Curate and personalize
content which would be useful post Covid as well.
10 .Another area to invest on for the School
managements is in having on single INTEGRATED
PLATFORM (so that attendance tracking to, LMS,
Video Conferencing, Fee collection modules, etc ) is
at one place & not an additional burden for
teachers.
Ideal Online Live session time is 25 mins (max 40mins).
8-12 numbers - Ensures better Engagement and personalization
Focus on covering complex topics within 10 mins. While simultaneous recording all live session for later use by students.
Each student should be alloted atleast 1-2 minutes to present their work;this helps to feel connected with the rest of the group.
These can be completed by students at their convenience.
by teachers regarding deadlines and expectations after every session
Including live sessions and assignments
(Attendance tracking, LMS, Video conferencing, Fee collection) Reduce burden of teachers
Research shows, children up to age of 12 are better engaged with familiar faces and voices . They get distracted with indifferent content.
Content creation and curation (production of videos, audio recording, editing, animation etc) can be outsourced.
Give children time to explore Engaging and sensorial hands on activities using easily available stuff at home or DIY projects available online.
Invest in partnerships to curate and Personalize content which will be useful post COVID as well
From a child’s perspective, these suggestions would take us a step further to limit the total Screen time to 3 hours per day (including live sessions and assignments) and give much needed time to them to explore and learn from more engaging and sensorial hands-on activities using easily available stuff at home or in some specific cases, using some of the DIY projects delivered via online media.
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