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[quote=Anonymous]Lessons from China:

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2020/apr/lessons-from-china-about-online-schooling.html

[quote]China’s shift to online learning was hurried and bumpy. In just three weeks, the Chinese government converted primary and secondary school textbooks and recorded instruction videos for key subjects such as math, Chinese, and English into new formats that could be accessed by Wi-Fi or television.

About 71 percent of teachers say their biggest challenge is gauging how effective their teaching has been, according to a recent survey of about 3,500 teachers conducted by Tencent and Xinhuanet. But this is not for want of effort. Almost 40 percent of China’s teachers spent at least six hours a day preparing for their next day’s lessons. Some sent 800 to 1,000 messages every day to the parents of typically 45 students in their classrooms.[/quote]

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Lessons For Educators

Redesign your class. Chinese educators found that simply following the same school schedule online is impractical, especially for younger pupils. First, it doesn’t hold students’ attention. Second, parents are forced to monitor their children for hours.

So teachers redesigned their classes. Many shortened 40-minute pre-recorded video or live-streamed lessons to 20 minutes, which included class activities such as lectures, drills, quizzes and student presentations every five to 10 minutes.

Some schools shortened their days from six classes to four and asked parents to lead the other two, such as physical education or housework. Others took a lesson from cram schools and jammed two days’ of curriculum into one day, to give families a one-day break and make it easier for parents to continue working. None of these designs was perfect. But they all made it easier for students to continue learning and for parents to juggle work and supervision of study2

Teach with parents in mind. Students – and parents – following livestreamed or recorded classes can become distracted. So it’s important to make expectations clear and stick to a schedule. All reference books and exercises need to be ready when the class starts. Parents should create an environment in which students can concentrate. And deadlines for homework must be clear.

Grading can be harder for remote teachers, especially for handwritten – or hand-drawn – assignments. And it is more important than ever to keep parents up to date with students’ progress. Automated tools can help. In China, teachers relied heavily on tools such as artificial intelligence-driven learning apps and grading devices, which automatically generate reports, calculate grades, and then send the results immediately to parents.

Expect a boom in extracurricular education. As it became clearer the pandemic would last for a while, Chinese students of all levels enrolled in extracurricular online education courses to gain an edge. Primary and secondary school students signed up for online tutoring in English and math. High-school students signed up for online preparatory classes for university admissions tests, which have now been postponed by one month for most students. And enrollments in vocational training courses soared.[/quote][/quote]

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