Brian's Blog

While remote learning has been a significant paradigm shift for many of us, some of the practices that have assisted both my students and myself to actively engage and continue our learning as recommended by my professional learning network has been: For Students - Providing students with a simple timetable to guide their learning throughout the week. - Daily virtual home groups enabling student connection and pastoral care using video conferencing platforms such as Google Meet. - Each day explicitly going through the work plan and daily expectations so that students can ask questions and seek clarification. - Students complete each day a Google Form check in to mark attendance and indicate their wellbeing, quality of sleep, energy levels, nutrition intake and identifies how they are feeling about relationships around them. This then exports to a Google Sheet. - Open hours where students can drop in to a video meeting and ask questions about their learning. - When students ne...