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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Not sure if it's allowed in the forums, but heyho it'll be removed if it's not.

For anyone homeschooling that might be struggling with maths, there's a free app available called PhotoMath. It scans the maths problem, gives you the answer and importantly, gives you a step by step breakdown how to solve the problem. It might be of use for some parents at this time.

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

That's a thoughtful thread OP.

Many parents are really struggling. Home schooling is a huge stress and pressure on many parents. Many are trying to do home schooling as well as holding down jobs. It's a very challenging time for parents and children.

At the end of the day it's the children's mental health and happiness that has to come before education so I hope parents aren't being too harsh on their children.

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Sorry OP I seem to to of headed off on a different tangent there.

Any advice will be welcomed by many I'm sure.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things.

Cal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Our daughters school have both on them on full schedules via Teams. We haven't had to do any homeschooling per say. And the bits we have had to do have been akin to 'homework'

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By *exy Pretty FeetCouple
over a year ago

Live in Scotland Play in England


"Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things.

Cal"

State or public?

I think remote learning offerings are highly variable even within towns and cities let alone different parts of the UK.

My 14 yr old is struggling to maintain any motivation after logging on two days in a row to find no work from teachers. Yesterday he managed to spend an hour watching some physics topics on khan academy but today couldn't find the motivation. It's just not fair on kids with issues like dyspraxia and ADHD to expect them to self direct their learning when they might struggle in the best of times as it is

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Generally, our only expectation of parents is to ensure that their kids are "attending".

Cal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nice one OP.

For English

There's also a very good app/online site called Grammarly where you can set different styles and it will help with punctuation, compound text/ complext sentences, passive voice misuse, text inconsistencies, intricate text etc etc.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things.

Cal

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State or public?

I think remote learning offerings are highly variable even within towns and cities let alone different parts of the UK.

My 14 yr old is struggling to maintain any motivation after logging on two days in a row to find no work from teachers. Yesterday he managed to spend an hour watching some physics topics on khan academy but today couldn't find the motivation. It's just not fair on kids with issues like dyspraxia and ADHD to expect them to self direct their learning when they might struggle in the best of times as it is "

We are a very semi-rural "comprehensive" school, we have very little money but are committed to doing our best to provide a "proper education". Sure some teachers are better at it than others, but by sticking to the normal school timetable, the kids get some kind of normality.

Cal

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

For those who need it, the BBC are doing lots of educational stuff too. There are hours of TV lessons and loads of resources on the website too.

Cal

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By *exy Pretty FeetCouple
over a year ago

Live in Scotland Play in England


"Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things.

Cal

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State or public?

I think remote learning offerings are highly variable even within towns and cities let alone different parts of the UK.

My 14 yr old is struggling to maintain any motivation after logging on two days in a row to find no work from teachers. Yesterday he managed to spend an hour watching some physics topics on khan academy but today couldn't find the motivation. It's just not fair on kids with issues like dyspraxia and ADHD to expect them to self direct their learning when they might struggle in the best of times as it is

We are a very semi-rural "comprehensive" school, we have very little money but are committed to doing our best to provide a "proper education". Sure some teachers are better at it than others, but by sticking to the normal school timetable, the kids get some kind of normality.

Cal"

That's amazing. Just goes to show what a difference a real passion and enthusiasm for teaching makes

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By *lirtymr_mrsCouple
over a year ago

Stockton-on-Tees

I think experience of home schooling depends on child age as well, primary school, especially the earlier years need a lot of parental input and the school provides less zoom/teams based learning as the kids just aren't old enough to sit all day in front of a computer.

Our school has for this lockdown finally instigated an hour a day of zoom lessons, which is all our kids can endure. Then it's a ton of work they would have done in class that we have to decipher and motivate them to do. So lock down for us is actually being a home educator (rightly or wrongly) otherwise the children would slip even further behind.

Don't get me started on the top notch low class size education the 40% of children still attending the school get. They are having full lessons in their usual classrooms.

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By *uietlykinkymeWoman
over a year ago

kinky land

This time round we have at least got work set most weekdays on Google classroom but nothing like video calls or team calls.

The 'work packs' they sent home, contained empty books for writing in.

Thankfully I have the funds to just buy enough from Amazon to get through to Easter

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By *ess n BenCouple
over a year ago

Didcot

Thanks OP very helpful, we have the grand kids when our daughter is working as a front line mid wife

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By *adame 2SwordsWoman
over a year ago

Victoria, London

I trialed software for online learning for schools.

I personally hate online learning, might be better with zoom, but would it not be good for the teacher to get all the parents together on zoom, to explain the curriculum, what's to be covered for the term, and then more detail as you need it. Could they not give you tutoring?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Realistically, parents shouldn't be expected to "home school". Schools are supposed to be providing a comprehensive remote learning offering. Certainly our school is delivering a full timetable for students, our staff ave delivering around 100 Zoom lessons per week. There are also lessons delivered using Teams for group work and colaberative projects, teachers guide the students through the live chat features. In addition, some teachers are producing video presentations, worksheets, interactive PowerPoints and many other things.

Cal

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State or public?

I think remote learning offerings are highly variable even within towns and cities let alone different parts of the UK.

My 14 yr old is struggling to maintain any motivation after logging on two days in a row to find no work from teachers. Yesterday he managed to spend an hour watching some physics topics on khan academy but today couldn't find the motivation. It's just not fair on kids with issues like dyspraxia and ADHD to expect them to self direct their learning when they might struggle in the best of times as it is

We are a very semi-rural "comprehensive" school, we have very little money but are committed to doing our best to provide a "proper education". Sure some teachers are better at it than others, but by sticking to the normal school timetable, the kids get some kind of normality.

Cal"

Good on you and well done for proving the support and commitment the kids need more than ever now. We can’t expect them to be that self disciplined at school age, not many kids are, they need parents, guidance and support to access what’s out there for them, not always easy in these difficult times I know.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Yes, we're private and teaching international students, BUT that means we're teaching across every time zone from -5 (Latin America) to +9 (South Korea & Japan) and we're still only contracted to work between 08:30 - 17:30 GMT (ish). Normally, students come to us, here in the UK and we'd never, ever delivered online lessons before March 2020. We used paper textbooks, had stacks of physical printed course notes and Moodle was used as a bit of a filing cabinet.

Fast forward, and we're teaching across the globe, on time, on point and like a well oiled machine. My team have learned more new things in the last 8-10 months than I think they've ever learned ever, and certainly in such a compressed timescale.

Support for staff has been online only (not easy to train people that way, especially not when the person in charge - me - has a 3yo marauding round, "helping"). Our centre barely re-opened at all, due to travel issues for students, so we've achieved this massive success whilst all in our own little silos. We have a teacher currently based in Zimbabwe (he got stranded) and another who went home to ROI. We've seconded staff from sister establishments across NI, Scotland and England.

Yes, it's private, but I can assure you that I need permission from the Executive Board to spend £1. There's a massive cost cutting project ongoing and so we do not have all singing and dancing tech, just the same sorts of things as schools.

We have students in war zones, in political conflict zones, students in the actual middle of nowhere with internet speeds akin to 1990s dial up (Inner Mongolia, I'm talking to you). Students doing it all from internet cafés or on their phones. We have students now stranded in the UK, alone in their accommodation, thousands of miles from home and who've had almost zero chance to meet people face to face. But they're doing it. They're doing the work, attending lessons at bizarre times of the day in their countries and they're amazing young people.

This morning, I met about 70 students for initial pastoral sessions. I met an international ju-jitzu competitor, a kid called Gandalf who loves LOTR, a young man from Egypt who spent the whole of the earlier pandemic working for an NGO in West Africa and we have students on scholarships who are orphans but who have shown academic promise and could go on to top UK universities if they get top grades.

I bloody love my job and honestly, it IS possible to teach well online, a comprehensive syllabus, to people with every kind of equipment/challenge etc.

It's fookin hard work, but jolly rewarding.

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By *ldaCouple
over a year ago

sutton Coldfield

We teach a full timetable, that’s 5 lessons a day, for all our students, via zoom. Participation is about 70%. Ok , it’s not as good as proper lessons, but it removes the onus for parents to home school, and we can probably do about 60% of what we can do in class. The biggest problem is assessing how well the learning is going, we’ll see when we all get back into school. We are secondary though, I feel for my primary colleagues, teaching 7/8 year olds must be very hard

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"We teach a full timetable, that’s 5 lessons a day, for all our students, via zoom. Participation is about 70%. Ok , it’s not as good as proper lessons, but it removes the onus for parents to home school, and we can probably do about 60% of what we can do in class. The biggest problem is assessing how well the learning is going, we’ll see when we all get back into school. We are secondary though, I feel for my primary colleagues, teaching 7/8 year olds must be very hard"

We've done online, time controlled assessments instead of traditional exams. We did them in June and just done again last week for Jan. They work. I'd suggest the big exam boards in the UK take a look, because scrapping all forms of external assessment can't happen forever.

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By *ldaCouple
over a year ago

sutton Coldfield

We have too, snag is they are a bit self selecting. It’s impossible to get all students to do them, the keen and motivated do, the less keen don’t. We have a fair few trying to access our work on mobile phone too, which puts them at a significant disadvantage

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"We have too, snag is they are a bit self selecting. It’s impossible to get all students to do them, the keen and motivated do, the less keen don’t. We have a fair few trying to access our work on mobile phone too, which puts them at a significant disadvantage"

A lot of ours wrote out the exam answers by hand, photographed the paper and submitted a PDF on their phones too. It's do-able. If you read above, were dealing with students all over the world and some are in very poorly resourced countries, in the middle of nowhere, with limited equipment. Usually they'd come to us and use our equipment but can't this year.

Office Lens is a really good phone app for quickly snapping pics of paper work and converting to PDF for then emailing or uploading from a phone or tablet.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

I need to know how to write, edit, add stuff to a pdf file.

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By *ldaCouple
over a year ago

sutton Coldfield

I did read your post, and I do accept your point. Main problem, to be honest, is lack of motivation, rather than kit

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"I need to know how to write, edit, add stuff to a pdf file.

"

With what I'm referring to, you snap a picture of the page(s) using the Office Lens app and then click save as PDF. Et voilá. There's plenty of self guide thingies online too. My lot are not English native speakers so they're doing this in a second or third language.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury


"I need to know how to write, edit, add stuff to a pdf file.

With what I'm referring to, you snap a picture of the page(s) using the Office Lens app and then click save as PDF. Et voilá. There's plenty of self guide thingies online too. My lot are not English native speakers so they're doing this in a second or third language."

Thank you

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"I did read your post, and I do accept your point. Main problem, to be honest, is lack of motivation, rather than kit"

I could put them in touch with a Ugandan lad who had to scarper quick from Kampala during election violence last week or the lad from Congo who had a horrific back story. It's interesting how such things motivate those with little.

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

Thanks OP it's hard to work and zoom on phone when the net is so bad hear we are still on dial up speed

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I think it depends on location, scholl they go to and of course the dreaded broadband signal.

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood

luckily for me and my ex our daughter has zoom lessons everyday 9 till midday. so still has her teacher just on a screen

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