Are your students remote learning? Learn from educators from International Schools around Asia who have been distance learning since January 2020.
Uncertain about what's coming next? These educators have been living your future for over 8 weeks now. In the resources below we share practical resources and personal stories that have had the most impact on student learning and social & emotional wellbeing during this COVID-19 (corona virus) panademic.
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Real Life Experiences with Long Term School Closures: Conversations with Educators & School Leaders in Asia, Europe and the Middle East
Watch or listen to our conversations with educators and school leaders who have been navigating school closures since mid-January.
Currently, schools in Asia have the most experience with long term school closures and these conversation highlight their key learning over time. Each episode explores a different aspect of how school communities are managing the emergency closure right now.
For educators who are in preparations or just starting out, this is a great way to get first hand advice on what the experience has been like:
Bonus Episode #1: Approaches to Long-Term Emergency School Closures
A roundtable discussion featuring educators working in international schools in the Asia region, and how they are handling extended closures due to the Coronavirus. We talked about everything from logistics and structure of online learning, to the community and …
Bonus Episode #2: Preparing for Extended School Closures - Key Learnings from One Month of Emergency School Closures
A follow up to our first roundtable discussion featuring educators working in international schools in the Asia region, currently dealing with ongoing emergency school closures due to COVID-19. It’s a big group, and we …
Bonus Episode #3: Emergency School Closures: School Leader Perspectives
This conversation features Heads of School and school leaders from around Asia, Europe and the Middle East to get a school leader perspective on these ongoing closures. We had school leaders in all different stages of the closure process: 6 weeks closed, 2 weeks closed, and preparing to close …
Bonus Episode #4: Assessment During Long-Term Remote Learning
We’re sharing our fourth episode in our ongoing series of featuring educators working in international schools in the Asia region. The teachers, coaches and school leaders on this call have been remote learning for up to 8 weeks already and they have so much practical advice to share for educators just beginning the journey.
Bonus Episode #5: Realities of Returning to School
Today we talk about what returning to school may look like for the foreseeable future, including the procedures for safe face-to-face learning, the realities of being back to school with expectations for social distancing, and the different ways schools are managing hybrid learning (online & face to face). We also discuss some of the positive outcomes from remote learning that we’d like to see continue next academic year.
I just want to thank you for sharing the blogs on school closings. I worked in international schools for 13 years (Burkina Faso and Singapore) and knew that international schools would be on top of this issue. Our small town in Nebraska is facing a school closing now. Because I listened to your videos, I feel much better prepared for our district discussion tomorrow. Thank you ... well done!
Cherie Larson, Nebraska USA
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Top Tips for Online Learning
(From our panel of experts in our Roundtable Discussion: Emergency School Closures)
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“During a recent Private Mentoring call, Kim and I talked about how I can best support our school needs during our emergency closure. Kim’s advice to make a website for the whole school community was just what I needed. I was able to put my ideas into action and created a website.
When I sent it off to the Senior Leadership Team they loved it. They took what I did and turned it into a whole school resource, made some adjustments to fit the whole school, created a separate page translated in Korean then added it to the school website.
Thank you for the idea. It was what was needed and worked!”
Worthwhile Reading
6 Ways Coaches can Support Teachers During Remote Learning
by Kim Cofino
As coaches, we’re often in a very fortunate position not only to work with a wide variety of teachers, and therefore have a good pulse on the learning that’s happening, but also often to be privy to large scale conversations on how schools are handling these challenging times.
6 Weeks & Counting: Lessons from COVID-19 School Closures
by Kim Cofino
It’s hard to believe it’s already been six weeks since schools in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam closed due to COVID-19. As the pandemic spreads, schools in every other region in the world are beginning to follow suit. Although this situation is very stressful, often confusing and pretty scary for all of us, those that are only …
School’s Closed, But Learning Doesn’t Have to Stop
by Kim Cofino
If you’re currently living in the Asia region, you’ve probably been impacted by the #coronavirus. Most of my friends and colleagues who are working in international schools in China are dealing with long-term, indefinite school closures.
eLearning Exemplars
Shared by ISB EdTech
A wealth of resources here – put together by the EdTech team at International School of Beijing. Under the headings Captivate, Care & Clarify, you’ll find exemplars of eLearning from ES, MS & HS.
Keep Learning in Challenging Times
by Julie Lemley
If you are a parent in Beijing right now, you are being challenged (and here’s a virtual hug). A mere two and a half weeks ago, life was fairly normal – we were finishing up a short stint of school and work between Winter Break and Chinese New Year and we were excited thinking about …
10 Strategies for Surviving When Working From Home
by Lissa Layman
This novel coronavirus has caused a bit of a stir in our international education community. Starting on February 5, schools across China closed and began implementing eLearning for students. This also means eWorking for us educators!
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More Resources (shared with us)
To Post or Not to Post
Online Powerpoint shared by Sandra Chow
Think about these things in order to be a productive member of an online discussion.
Virtual Learning
Created by Tanya Le Clair
A list of useful resources for those in MS/HS who are teaching virtually.
Virtual Learning Survival Guide
By David Higginson & Joel Sutton
Tech Talks with Teachers podcast – discussing discuss how their school is handling virtual learning during our school closings due to the Covid-19 outbreak
Virtual Learning @ KISJ
Created by Whitney Little (then adapted by her school)
Whitney created this resource from an idea suggested during her weekly mentoring call with Kim as part of The Coach Microcredential Program.
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The Eduro Team
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Take a closer look at these!
Fabulous graphics shared by Sonya terBorg for EDUCATORS and LEARNERS – their ‘End of Shift’ checklist for #onlinelearning
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