We are all working in challenging circumstances at the moment.
As teachers ourselves, we know that teaching works best in the classroom and can feel awkward and unnatural online.
Here at Ark Curriculum Plus, our English Mastery and Mathematics Mastery curriculum teams have put together some guidance to help you find pedagogical approaches for remote learning that best suit your teaching style and school context.
Firstly, it is ok to focus solely on getting the basics right. Before trying to become a remote learning master, ground yourself in the familiarity and simplicity of the situation.
We recommend focusing on these four key ideas:
… and you are experts in how to teach your subject. Use your excellent classroom practice when planning and teaching online.
Teaching and learning online is cognitively challenging for everyone. Ensure you all have time to master the basics of online communication.
Some activities will take longer to do online and some will be quicker. Time spent learning and reinforcing new routines in the early lessons is not wasted.
Your knowledge is still the most important feature of a great lesson.
On top of those key ideas, planning for a remote lesson sometimes feels different to planning a live lesson. However, there are a lot of similarities.
Here are four key lesson planning questions we think are particularly important for remote teaching:
