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I'm reading and thinking about schooling in lockdown. I have a series of thoughts and questions... please read on and if you can point me to answers to the questions, that would be great, thank you. RTs welcome if others can answer... 1/
There's a lot of writing about 'lost hours' of schooling - but do we have *any* sense how, say, one hour of work, individually (supported by a parent or not) equates to time in school in a whole class? 2/
I'm interested (as always) in how things are phrased. 'Schools not required to re open' seems very different to 'It was not safe for schools to re open' but that was the reality, surely? 3/
We need a new way of saying 'schooling has moved into the home' because schools are not now and have not been closed - the BUILDINGS may be closed but every teacher I've ever talked to about this has claimed - rightly I think - that 'the school' is far more than the building 4/
These questions seem important - do we know that an hour less a day than a child would be in school, really means an hour less learning? And surely it can't be the same for all students in all subjects in all homes?
When we talking about a 'learning deficit' that yp will have experienced because they've not beenin normal lessons - what is the standard against which their learning is 'in deficit'? /5
It can only be against 'expected norms' or some other standard - but there is a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. Why should we refer to expected norms?
