@teaandcustardcreamsx
What subject do you teach? Are you primary or secondary school? What’s it like teaching remotely?
secondary science.
Remote teaching is very hard, but then teaching in school last term was also very hard, we were not allowed to approach any child, so could never see their work, or anything like that - (obviously, I am giving my own experience, other schools may be different.) It was hard to teach when children were not allowed into a science lab, when I wasn't allowed to leave the front of the classroom, when I couldn't take work in to mark, etc.
Teaching online, at least I can see the children's work, so that is an improvement!
But of course, we have no resources for online teaching, and not only that, but I spend most of my time dealing with glitches for one student after another, throughout every single lesson.
I feel very vulnerable live streaming lessons, which is basically the same as broadcasting live in public. Most of my classes are very nice, but one class has a large number of aggressive, misogynist boys, who attempt to bully and intimidate, both in person and online. I have decided not to offer any further live streamed lessons to that class, after a barrage of complaints from parents, which have been a) that I teach too slowly, b) that I teach too fast, c) that I don't address poor behaviour strongly enough, d) that I come down to heavily on poor behaviour, e) that my feedback is too harsh and f) that my feedback is not rigorous enough, etc. This class will have no further live lessons, just resources sent.
Other classes can be great, children can be engaged, full of questions, thinking and interacting positively, and learning well.
We still waste time with IT glitches constantly though, but then, when we were on the school premises last term, we wasted around 10% of teaching time just in cleaning.