Interesting blog post from Becky Allen (formerly of Education Datalab) discussing the issues with what primary school teachers are setting, the demands on parents and the actual learning that happens. rebeccaallen.co.uk/2020/04/29/parental-load-theory/
Her point that her kids enjoyed watching an educational CBeebies programme but didn’t actually learn from it is interesting. Teachers know that kids need repetition over days and weeks and questioning and testing to remember things, but one-off lessons don’t deliver this.
“It now seems very likely some (or most) parents will be asked to combine work and schooling of young children for many hours a week for a large part of the next academic year. It is an almost impossible ask and all the parents I know who are trying to do this are at the point of complete collapse. Our best hope of keeping these parents from breaking down completely is drop our commitment to having each school create and deliver their own school curriculum of home-learning tasks that were originally designed for the classroom. Instead, much as primary teachers may hate it, we must deliver to parents new resources that are crafted with parental load in mind, limiting the parental role to meaningful interactions for learning in a limited number of tasks rather than burdening us with activities that have high extraneous parental load.”
...”we need a fully-centralised week-by-week National Primary Curriculum for the 2020/21 academic year.”
Other countries would think it bonkers that this isn’t already in place.
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noblegiraffe · 30/04/2020 11:01
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