Teaching During the Covid-19 Shutdown

This survey report by The Educational Institute of Scotland looks at the challenges of delivering education remotely as well as in school hubs.

The survey of over 26,000 teachers reveals that many fear it is impossible to apply social distancing with younger pupils and those who have complex additional needs. It also shows the long hours school staff have been working and the many new skills they have had to develop – as well as the pupils they believe are being left behind by online learning.

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      string(4321) "be able to turn our thoughts inwards and observe ourselves and our own mental life. This is an extraordinarily powerful observation because it is only through this ability that you can understand your own emotions and hence the emotions of others. Our own individual day-to-day experiences of life are influenced by our conscious and unconscious thinking habits. We all sometimes suffer from cognitive biases: those sets of fixed beliefs about the way things are, or about our own attributes. For example, students may believe that they are poor learners or that maths is too difficult for them, that making friends is too hard or that singing in tune is too tricky. These beliefs may have been triggered by comments or comparisons with others, but once formed they can be hard to challenge. For example, if your ego is convinced that you can’t spell, it will always look for evidence that it is right about that. So, when you struggle with a word, it runs the mental commentary, ‘See, I can’t spell – I have never been able to spell.’This type of fixed thinking can apply to any aspect of life and makes uncertainty harder to bear. The more inflexible our thinking becomes, the more we are stuck believing that we can never change – but change is inevitable and those who are adaptable will thrive.Our minds are always processing a myriad of random thoughts at any one time – some say an average of 60,000–80,000 a day! If our habitual, default thinking is negative and self-doubting, then we will focus on the thoughts that fit with this perception and connect them together to create negative, sad or hopeless feelings. By noticing our feelings and becoming conscious of the thinking that is shaping them we become more self-reflective, slowing down our automatic emotional responses. We are then no longer being ‘driven blindly’ or trying to cling to past cognitive habits thatdon’t serve us well. This quality is emphasised by Mike Berners-Lee as a key new way of thinking which is required for the 21st century.14‘We have seen…how urgently we need to learn how to think in ways that let us deal more effectively with the situation we have created for ourselves. We need thinking skills and habits that fit in the twenty-first century context of enormous human power and technology on a now-fragile planet’15The purpose of these lessons is to encourage more cognitive flexibility so that – via metacognition – we can stand back from our instinctive, fixed-mindset thoughts and challenge them. This way our students can maximise their ability to push the boundaries of their comfort zones and grow. The first stage is to become conscious of how thoughts impact on their everyday thinking and, therefore, on the feelings they have about themselves, their learning and their work. If we can integrate the skills in these lessons into the curriculum, we will be training our children to react to challenges the future throws at them with wisdom, empathy and grace. And they may do better than we have when faced with losing control of our lives and livelihoods.Jackie Beere‘The Complete Learners Toolkit’ 2020 Crown House publishing Follow this link https://t.co/8VFkoyZotJ?amp=1jackieabeere@gmail.comTrainer, Coach, Author.ReferencesP. Brown, H. Roediger and M. McDaniel, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 59. Brown, Roediger and McDaniel, Make It Stick, p. 9. S. Dehaene, How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain (London: Allen Lane, 2020) p82 Ibid p.82 Ibid p.22 M. Berners-Lee, There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), p. 189. Berners-Lee, There Is No Planet B, p. 186. Berners-Lee, There Is No Planet B, p. 189. K. Robinson with L. Aronica, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (London: Penguin, 2009), p. 49. Dweck, Mindset, p. 198. D. Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (London: Bloomsbury, 1996). R. Berger, An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003). A. Curran, The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain (Carmarthen: Crown House Publishing, 2008), p. 22. Berners-Lee, There Is No Planet B, p. 188. Ibid p185"
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After Covid-19 We Need A New Paradigm For Education

26 May 2020