Teachers offering active online teaching?

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Just doing a poll.

By online, I mean posting a video lesson, delivering a class via Google Classroom or Zoom or similar.

Versus passive teaching ie uploading work on a website or by email.

I'm trying to workout where my DC's school stands in this. Very traditional grammar and so far, teaching online has been passive. I know friends with children in independent schools or international schools abroad where teachers are actively delivering lessons online.

Why do you want to know? Do you assume one is better than the other?

Why don't you read this thread. Your post comes across as yet another criticism of teachers.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3894500-To-think-we-could-just-collate-all-the-teacher-teaching-related-information-here-and-have-done-with-it

It's not criticism of teachers - I'm trying to find out whether schools have offered teachers any guidance around this.

I have read that thread - thanks.

Also a poll allows me to see if my DC's school is broadly out of line and whether I would be reasonable / unreasonable to raise this with the school.

Let me first say - I'm not expecting teachers to actively deliver all lessons online. Even just once a week would be useful

And DC are upper secondary levels so we're not talking primary or younger children

In my children's school- 2 live lessons per day (maths and literacy) and then 3 pre-loaded lessons with class and specialist teachers available on chat to explain if necessary. They use Google Classroom.

Thanks - is that an independent school?

Dd goes to a comp and work is set but not actively taught. I'm fine with that. They can look up live teaching videos on most topics on YouTube if they like. Dd already does that when revising.

I mean teaching videos on youtube not live teaching bideos

Our school (private prep) has done pre recorded video lessons with the teacher, sometimes incorporating a video from another source, and then related worksheets/tasks. No live teaching. I can’t see how live teaching would work with numerous primary age children, even to have a zoom chat they are limiting it to 5 kids at once to prevent chaos.

My dc are at a private school and have a full active schedule.

They are yr 7 and honestly they find it pretty hard work, I suspect the teachers do as well.

We've been told we are not allowed to use videos or live teaching, as too many teachers in other schools/ countries have ended up on Tik Tok, Reddit etc with kids laughing at them. A lot of teachers also don't have very good cameras, if our video meetings are anything to go by. I'd imagine half of the videos would look like they were filmed on a potato!

Also, a lot of the kids can't do the lessons at such specific times due to sharing laptops/ parents trying to work etc. We are using our VLE, PowerPoints and lots and lots of emailed questions. (Just taking a break from it now as it happens!) The "passive" method seems to be a lot less stressful for everyone concerned. (Secondary school.)

Neither of my dc’s schools are teaching online (primary and secondary)

Im paying for mine to do online school while the schools are shut. Im not teacher bashing to wish that schools would sort out online lessons. The software is out there.

You will be flamed OP.

Dont dare ask. Then prepair to be flamed once the kids go back and your not invested or not interested enough.

They might be your child but your not allowed to ask. I suggest that you give no fucks on the issue at all.

Then let someone berate you further down the line for giving a fuck
Not giving a fuck
Giving the wrong type of fuck
Not putting the teachers personal.lives I the centre of your childs education

My kids primary school are providing excellent material.

Using google classroom, not live due to safeguarding but prerecorded slides with voice over. Pupils submit work and it's marked and returned.

State primary btw

The DfE have advised against live teaching for primary. I have the link on my work computer but could dig it out if you need to. You could probably just google it though.

My kids are at a private school - primary age. They do have pastoral check ups online on Teams but actually anything “live” is a bit of a nightmare. Pre-recorded video instructions followed by them completing an activity seems to work best.

OP why do you think the "active" lessons are the way to do? You didn't answer

Local private school - live lessons
Local grammar school - recorded audio lessons by teachers
Local comp - claim they can't do either of the above

I'm doing two live lessons a week with my year 12 (that's how often I see them).
Offered live lessons to my year 10s but they prefer me to send PowerPoint with recording (they can pause and work at own pace then). I am available for questions in all time tabled lessons. Lower years have ongoing project style work but are expected to check in with me at least once a week.

There was an article on the 10 o’clock news about this. In private schools there are very few children who don’t have access to screens / tech. In state schools in some deprived areas, up to 30% don’t have access to tech. Very difficult to run an online class with up to 1/3 students missing....

My son is at a state comp. His learning is mainly power-point presentations with embeded videos, recorded by the teacher or using another suitable source, and links to relevant online content which might be bitezise or hegarty maths. All mixed in with online quizzes to test knowledge at regular intervals - so you can go back over the content if you havent understood, with teacher available on email to answer questions. Then at the end of the learning they have activities like write the essay, complete the maths, design a poster. Then the teacher feedsback that day. I'm impressed. I think its a really active way to learn compared to listening to someone talk live in a video link.

Our Local authority has said no to live teaching online for all the reasons other posters have stated.

We can prerecord and respond to questions in a chat type facility.

State primary- an email of ideas every Monday. Links to online lessons for Maths for example (that can be done anytime).

We are reasonably well off but ruralish- our internet connection often freezes on things like facetime, zoom, YouTube etc. I'm very happy there's no 'live' lessons.