In this episode, I’m going to try and celebrate the first week back to school and the almost unanimous sigh of relief that all the weeks of line painting, partition-building, hot water pumping, traffic planning, sign making, risk assessing, policy writing, health and safety checking, LWR begging, classroom laying, garda vetting, cleaner hunting, Friday evening … Read more
The last part of my live Q&A session about blended learning where I tell you what blended learning is not, how self-isolating teachers might teach, and the must-have settings on Zoom. All in less than 13 minutes.
Do you know at the end of a talk when the presenter asks does anyone have any questions, and the room goes silent? Well, I asked Facebook and Twitter that very question about blended learning and here’s the result – the 3rd of 4 mini-episodes on blended learning. Think of them like the Appendix at … Read more
Do you know at the end of a talk when the presenter asks does anyone have any questions, and the room goes silent? Well, I asked Facebook and Twitter that very question about blended learning and here’s the result – the 2nd of 4 mini-episodes on blended learning. Think of them like the Appendix at … Read more
Do you know at the end of a talk when the presenter asks does anyone have any questions, and the room goes silent? Well, I asked Facebook and Twitter that very question about blended learning and here’s the result – the first of 4 mini-episodes on blended learning. Think of them like the Appendix at … Read more
It’s Day 1 of the school year. It’s all a bit weird and scary as the squeeze 30 children into your unventilated classroom, all of them breathing in your direction with only the mask you grabbed in Dealz the day before protecting you from potential COVID19. What better way to start the year by teaching … Read more
Cases are rising, counties are in almost lockdown, there’s more cases growing daily than there was when schools originally closed in March, it seems like the virus is one that’s airborne, all the experts are becoming very wary of a 2nd wave. It sounds like a perfect time to fully reopen schools! In this 4th … Read more
I remember my classroom when I was in primary school – rows of seats, talking wasn’t really allowed, a lot of sitting down in the same place doing bookwork, everyone facing the blackboard. What will the new pandemic classroom look like and how will we have to teach the curriculum? In this part, I examine … Read more
Last Friday evening there was so much thrown at us that you might have missed a very important circular sent to schools, possibly because it was Friday evening. I was one such person so I decided I’d have a look through it and respond to it live in this special episode. It’s all about special … Read more
One thing we can guarantee is that schools will be very different places when we go back to them in a couple of weeks. In this week’s episode, I’m going to examine what a pandemic-style classroom is going to have to look like with some tips for teachers for laying out their classrooms. Don’t worry, … Read more