This report by the Chartered College of Teaching presents findings from a project involving 400 teachers, setting out their views, experiences and innovations around emergency remote teaching.
It found that live online and asynchronous online teaching were the most popular approaches to distance learning overall.
The majority of respondents felt that distance learning has had a positive impact on those students who found more independent approaches to learning more motivating. Many want to continue to develop their students’ independent learning skills going forward.
Despite major challenges for teachers and students, this period of distance learning has thus also brought some positive change and innovation into classrooms, which are likely to benefit students, teachers and parents for years to come.
The opportunity for students to access content repeatedly (73%), improved independent learning skills (63%), increased flexibility for students (58%) and teachers (43%) and fewer behavioural issues and distractions (47%) were raised as the main benefits of distance learning.