Why are teachers not teaching live lessons online

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This is not a teacher bashing thread.

Talking online with another mum in my son’s class today, both ourDCs are in p1 (Scotland). She is outraged that teachers next term will be posting work online rather than actually teaching using Zoom etc. Her argument is that universities are doing it so why aren’t teachers? And how is she supposed to work from home and educate her children?

Personally I don’t think teaching a bunch of 5 year olds a live lesson using Zoom is going to be all that effective and would probably require quite a lot of supervision anyway. AIBU to think that tasks posted online are quite sufficient given the circumstances? So as not to drip feed, I am also working from home with 2DCs.

I've had a look at my subject for www.thenational.academy and I'm really impressed.

Hats off to the organisers and teachers who've been involved.

Unsurprisingly my subject isn't on there.

Thanks for the link!
I just tried one of their quizzes in a subject I did at university and got 0-10

No, nor mine fripp but am happy with that!

They were very responsive when I pointed out an error via Twitter.

Those online things look good. My fantasy of teachers teaching via zoom whilst we work has proved to be just a fantasy it’s not possible it seems. We’ve accepted that if dd is to learn anything one of us has to down tools entirely.

The National Academy looks good. It's interesting how many of the staff are from the Outwood MAT and Dixons. There's another couple of schools that have multiple staff represented.
It would be interesting to know how the DfE selected staff.

I don't think they did. The teachers suggested it to DfE or so Twitter says. Hence 'allegations' of a clique but also hence refutations that they are DfE's chosen ones. They do have a certain style of teaching at those places which is , from my pov, robotic, but it is in favour at the mo and does, to an extent, suit online learning.

They have not really had any time to QA anything though so there are a few glitches.

It is mostly perfectly usable by students so I don't know why DfE haven't publicised it better directly to parents.

A mate of mine was asked. I think it was a case of ‘do you know anyone good who will be up for it’? That’s why they’re at the same bunch of trusts.

That makes sense. Call me cynical but certain MATs seem to crop up a lot on DfE initiatives.

@LolaSmiles I don't think you're cynical. My MAT has had a lot to do with the new Oak school. I've not been at the school long but it's certainly been eye opening to see how involved the chain is with the DfE.

Well, our parents have struggled with Powerpoint and Publisher this week, I think Zoom might be a step too far!

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Publisher is the work of the devil.

The year we used that for GCSE Product design still gives me nightmares.

Some schools are teaching lessons online. My sister is a teacher at a secondary school and has been doing lessons since the start of the lockdown (during term).