I'm part time and working from home. I've two small children at home who I am attempting to home school. Their school has 2 zoom calls a day and up to 15 different learning tasks to complete each day (some as simple as watching and episode of Alphablocks but others need much more support).
We've had no real guidance on what to do. School have said there should be teaching in place whether it be recorded lessons or live lessons. Our department have all gone off in vastly different directions dependent on our circumstances.
I'm setting work on Teams a mixture of our own work booklets, Oak Academy and YouTube videos/other self marking activities. At the start of each lesson I am online for 10 minutes, a little more if I'm going through our work booklets. I explain the task, ask for questions, end the call and leave them to it. To be honest 10 minutes is about as long as I trust my own kids for unsupervised. Last week we had an incident just before a call where one of them injured themselves and I literally had to leave them in tears to do the call and patch them up later.
I've tried doing more interactive Teams calls but neither mine nor the student's connections are good enough and there's very limited interaction. I'm not sure I see the point in reinventing the wheel and doing narrated PP's when the stuff on Oak National Academy is good for my subject but I feel like I'm getting raised eyebrows.
What are other people doing? Are you on calls all day long? Do you stay on calls whilst the kids work? Are you using Oak or producing everything yourselves? Do you have your own kids at home? Their school is full and have refused keyworkers who are at home places.
I'm just not sure I can keep this up much longer or do any more.