Category: COVID19
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Jess Glynne is right: We’re ready for this. Teachers, summer holidays and a new school year with BIG challenges ahead!
The usual twitter debate over how teachers should use the summer break has filled the #EduTwitter timelines this July and August. My view: whatever you’ve done this summer, if it’s helped you feel ready for the 2022-23 academic year then it’s been time well spent.
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Dear Santa, Did You Get My Tweet?
Remote learning, online-learning platforms and home-schooling. It has certainly been a year in which these emerging technologies and pedagogies have grown and developed, especially in response to C19 restrictions and lockdowns. But despite all the progress in these spaces, surely there is still nothing that beats the physical school environment and face-to-face human interaction between…
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Community growth from COVID
The pandemics and lockdowns have brought everyone in my school communities much more closely together. And that can only be a good thing.
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A personal review of remote and online learning…
Laxey and Dhoon Schools developed and offered an extensive remote learning package that arose during the COVID19 lockdown period, and which continued to evolve once the schools in the Isle of Man reopened for 6 weeks prior to the summer holidays.
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11 weeks of lockdown… 11 weeks of video messages…
In an attempt to keep a high visibility during lockdown and school closure, I have maintained regular contact with my school community through a series of video messages, or VLOGs.
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Working from home…
In this blog I offer an insight to a teacher’s typical week working from home. I just jotted down key moments, so it’s just in note-form I’m afraid, but I hope it gives you a flavour of being a teacher (and trade unionist) in these strange times…
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Working without a blueprint…
When schools were closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers, nobody knew how long the lockdown would last, or how education and schooling could continue without the physical presence of young learners turning up to a communal building each day.
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A School response to COVID19…
As many schools and school leaders have had to react to the coronavirus implications, Maxim Kelly outlines the response to COVID19 that his schools have taken.
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School communication in the face of COVID19…
Maxim Kelly writes about the communication problems and solutions for schools caused by COVID-19…
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A week in a “hub” school during the COVID19 crisis…
It was a strange week in which I found myself working in a new school, heading up one of the “hub schools” that have remained open in the Isle of Man to children of key workers and vulnerable children. Here’s how I got on…
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Advocates for our times…
I used to have a romantic fancy for living in the 1940s. A time, I would fantasise, for Blitz-Spirit community and a shared sense of togetherness. From my vantage point of the modern world, I would look upon the gentle imaginings of vintage swing music and tea-dances and find comfort in my whimsical view of…
MANX MAX 