The Sixty-Sixth Republic - Who will be the medal winners on Results Day? Grade inflation predicted again

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If my school last term is anything to go by they won't. What's the motivation?

I feel really upset today about the news that we will keep getting reinfected and it's sod's law. I can't have this again. I just can't bear the thought.

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Things not great in Highlands at all - some classes already being asked to isolate although that goes against their new guidance.....

But piggy, if you did get it again you’re very likely to have it more mildly/ asymptomatically.

How are you feeling today? 💐

Fed up, as you can tell!

Back to feeling exhausted and headachy....

It's probably exacerbated by the fact that my mum hasn't even emailed to ask how I am...

Piggy you are definitely not a good example for the 'teachers are all double jabbed now, what are you worried about?' lot.

Sorry to hear you still feel crap and that you mum isn't very caring.

No , I am definitely not that poster girl!

my mum hasn't even emailed to ask how I am...

Oh dear

Piggy

Did you notice that the guidance on remote learning says that it no longer applies to independent schools (I know they will continue to provide it anyway - market forces - but still...)?

Piggy - hope you feel much better soon.

That’s interesting Dangling, I wonder why?

piggy, you can be the Republic’s poster girl instead 💁🏻‍♀️

Oh it might be fun to start a thread ‘AIBU to require my child’s expensive, naice school to provide remote education should she catch Covid?’

So still high quality same as in school blah then.

Confused by this still - why bother providing Oak National if we can't use it because we have to provide what we're doing in school. If I were a cynic...

This is my biggest concern about this year - I don't want to be trying to teach children at home at the same time as I'm teaching in class. I don't want to be having to talk to them on the phone at the end of a normal day in class. It's a whole load of extra work which adds hours to a day realistically.

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So still high quality same as in school blah then.

Confused by this still - why bother providing Oak National if we can't use it because we have to provide what we're doing in school. If I were a cynic...

This is my biggest concern about this year - I don't want to be trying to teach children at home at the same time as I'm teaching in class. I don't want to be having to talk to them on the phone at the end of a normal day in class. It's a whole load of extra work which adds hours to a day realistically.

This is also my biggest concern for the year ahead - quite apart from the risk of getting Covid and taking it home to my family, I'm not sure I can take another year of teaching remotely and in person at the same time.

We very sensibly didn't do remote and in person. If they were off, we set work which was similar to (and which they didn't do) what we did in school.
Remote was only for groups out.
What the plan is now, who knows. But we don't have the facilities to live stream lessons from school

We don't either. Just don't have the tech.

Luckily we had no year 11 groups/individuals off.

All years 7-9 were taught fully in form so either all in or all out.

Year 10 was the only issue. Some in, some out. But then they were all out a couple of times because of mass outbreaks. So not too much juggling required.

What tech do you not have?

The wireless connections in school are dire. All rooms have projectors so if you're working from a ppt or notebook you could teams that out.
But the whiteboards in a lot of rooms are not the projector one (some projectors look at a wall) so if you're writing on a board, there's no means of sending that out to isolating students (I'd use my document camera).
There's no effective way of capturing the audio unless you sit at the laptop.
It's a mess.

Yeah, we had the same and still had to do the dual lessons they gave us a microphone to plug into the desktop that was it.

Our wifi isn’t too bad though so people brought in their own iPads and laptops.

We all have laptops. All staff do.
The head is a Luddite though, so that possibly saved us.

So I had to sit at my desk the whole time talking into a microphone while writing on my iPad and projecting that through Teams onto the board. It was a major, major pain in the arse.

Urgh. That's grim. Let my boss never hear of that.

Who voted good? 👀 (you will be unsurprised to hear I voted terrible).

There is no way that works for 7 year olds. At the moment we don't have webcams on our desk tops and our laptops can't connect to the IAWB.

I saw some photos of teachers walking around the room during a phonics session - allegedly teaching the children in the room, and holding a laptop with the cam 'teaching' children at home. I'd wager that no meaningful learning happened in any of those lessons.

I wonder if anyone outside of education realises that it's literally doubling our work load - lessons going home aren't the same in any form.

Children didn't do it anyway.

Yeah, I’d be trapped at my desk faffing around with tech more than teaching for the sake of the one kid who actually bothered to log in. It wasn’t a good experience for the ones in class or the one at home and definitely not for me.