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PolskiUNIT 3: Recommendations for teachers
3.1. Assessing and measuring performance
Whichever program you use, an important feature to keep in mind is the ability to assess and measure each student’s performance. You’ll need to ensure that students are keeping up with lesson plans so that they won’t get behind. It’s also crucial that the student is the one doing the work, and not an older sibling or parent.
Today’s responsive assessment tools allow teachers to check in with students at any point in the curriculum, not just at the end of a lesson or unit. This can help them get a more “real-time” view of student needs. It can make up for the lack of an in-person presence that some students rely on to stay on track.
3.2. Special considerations for online learning
Even state-of-the-art teaching tools won’t work in certain situations, and the priority should be on making distance learning accessible rather than cutting-edge. Not every student will have the most up-to-date PC or steady high-speed internet service to support certain video modules or live streaming.
3.3. Help for younger children
You should also consider the ability of younger children to master new platforms. In some cases, they won’t have the support of an adult to walk them through it. Any learning tools you use should be easy to understand and get started with from day one, with minimum tech troubleshooting that could distract from learning.
3.4. What about high-risk or disadvantaged students?
Another challenge for remote teaching is maintaining IEPs and keeping students with disabilities on track. While some programs offer varying accommodations, teachers may have to look beyond the standard offerings for certain higher-risk students.
Parents of disadvantaged learners can be a resource for teachers in these cases since they have ongoing interaction with their students on the home front.
3.5. Tech or timing challenges
Finally, consider that there may be more than one student in the home, which can make sharing a family PC a logistical concern. Older students may also hold jobs or have family commitments that could make live learning a challenge.
When possible, consider offline, downloadable learning options that can be completed and submitted later. Make every effort to ensure distance learning is helpful for the student – and not another obstacle to learn or prioritize.
3.6. Practical Assessment
Consider the need you have in education with online tools:
- Take in consideration how are you going to grade students and measure their performance.
- Make a pool does every student have technical equipment that can support your class.
- Do you have students with lower opportunities, contact their parents.
- Every time when possible, leave the students to finish their work and submit it later, but with the deadline.
Write it down and look for the opportunities!
Conclusion
Whether you’ve been using digital tools for years or you’re starting to embrace the trend because of a crisis, you’ll find that there are more solutions available than ever before.
Fortunately, the programs on our list are all designed with the busy educator in mind to offer you online support. They will help you get up to speed quickly and get your students learning. With education changing daily, the time to embrace distance learning tools is now.
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Usefull Tools (E-School platform):
One of the partners-SOU Jane Sandanski has experience in e-learning development with Efront platform. The adaptation of this platform has been used by our teachers since 2010 and many improvements have been done since. Our teacher Sofija Tosheva (N.Macedonia) did research on e-learning and improvement by using blended learning. Sofija is recognised for translation in Macedonian language of the e-front platform. Her master these “Adaptive e-Learning System in Secondary Education” from 2012 was used and citied on Academia.edu and Researchgate.net networks by more than 100 researchers, especially during and after pandemics. Few articles were published in collaboration with professors from Computer Science Department- University Goce Delcev, N.Macedonia. Also these articles had been published on few International Conferences in Belgrade, Malaga, and scientific online editions such as I-jet journal.
You can read results of this research:
The platform of our school : www.eschool.mk
https://www.efrontlearning.com/
Articles published:
https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/448/1/E_uciliste_iJET.pdf
https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/1913
https://www.academia.edu/7631223/Adaptive_E_Learning_System_in_Secondary_Education
https://www.slideshare.net/BlendedLearningQuality/adaptive-elearning-system-in-secondary-education
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320164382_Implementation_of_adaptive_E-school_system
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233388567_Adaptive_E-learning_System_in_Secondary_Education