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Pupils’ readiness in the use of a different platform for learning. Teachers’ readiness to use the platform. Parents’ role in this new way of schooling.

The new normal has many potential. But to be able to tap of the affordances we might have to prepare ourselves and the stakeholders.

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1. Teachers and students' readiness for blended/online learning is important. Students are digitally literate but may not be digitally fluent.

2. As our pupils are all unique and different, we need different ways to engage them and elicit the pupils' voice

3. Monitoring of students' learning and giving them feedback is important to know if students are engaged and grasping concepts. We need to utilize different avenues for them to feedback their learning to us (either typed, written or verbal) so that we can monitor and assess their progress and how they feel about the lesson.

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Teachers, students and parents's readiness level to quality blended learning are different. I think we could have a online platform to provide and share resources and necessary training of skills to teachers, students and parents.
There should be school policies and class rules to help the students who do not have enough family support at home to manage their behaviors during HBL and help them in learning too.

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When pupils go online to complete their work, how do we ensure that they are really there to do what they have been assigned to do? If left unsupervised, will they be able to resist the temptation and not end up surfing the Net/playing games/watching videos instead?

Ultimately they will have to be the ones responsible for their own learning. Hence they should not rely on adult supervision to ensure that they stay on task. Ideally, we hope to see them becoming independent learners who are able to plan and prioritise their tasks on hand. They ought to be able to control their impulse and decide on the "correct" actions to take.

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Teachers are embracing ICT tools in HBL.

Teachers are exploring different methods to engage the children (Hangouts, Meets, Classroom etc.)

Not all the pupils are ready for HBL, - Home support is integral to its success.

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In order for blended learning to transit seamlessly and effectively between home and school, teachers have to consider what of the content to deliver online and how much of the content to deliver online.

For it to be effective, pupils should have accessed the online content before the face-to-face classroom activities. Teachers must consider ways to monitor or motivate pupils to access the online content before coming to class.
Resources could be  created collaboratively but teachers must further customized the resources to suit their pupils' needs.

Teachers should consider ICT readiness level before they consider ICT tools.  Cyberwellness for both parents and pupils must be carried out. Common ICT tools could be used by the different departments.

Unpack the term `feedback' :  There should be a common understanding. Eg, is auto marking considered feedback?

Assessment and feedback: There should be other modes of assessment that are formalized apart from pen and paper.

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I think it is important to get buy in from not only the teachers and pupils, but also parents, for blended learning to be successful. We need parents to provide some level of monitoring and a conducive learning environment especially for those pupils with low level of readiness, motivation and self discipline.

All stakeholders should embrace this new way of teaching with an open and growth mindset. I believe it will be a steep learning curve for all if not most of us. It is important that teachers and pupils are equipped with a certain level of ICT competencies and skills. We should also ask ourselves "How do we want SV blended learning to look like?"

It will be good for teachers to come together to share their HBL challenges and discuss on ways to overcome them. Teachers will feel more confident when they have overcome the challenges that they have faced during HBL before moving on to blended learning which is a higher level of lesson design and monitoring.

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1. Teachers have indicated different strategies to conduct an online lesson only. It will be beneficial if we can see a continuation and momentum of a blended learning.

During HBL, teachers are doing google meet and carrying out lesson. For lower primary, the lessons were conducted online via video.

It will be good to share how we can infuse blended learning in a typical week, with HBL work and extension during f2f lesson.

2. Question: There will be some changes in how we see the pupils learning attitude for their holistic development. Will we penalise on pupils who are lacking with certain skills?

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Not only teachers learn to teach during HBL, pupils too, need to learn how to learn during HBL. Beside attending lessons during HBL, they need to respond and there are some pupils who may still be struggling how to do and submit their work online.
Maybe pupils who are not so self-disciplined and not so responsible may need much more motivation to benefit from blended learning.

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Teachers pointed out some key areas of concerns that could impede/ impact the effectiveness of blended learning: - 

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Teachers pointed out some key areas of concerns that could impede/ impact the effectiveness of blended learning: - 

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1) The digital competence/ ability/ familiarity with digital platforms of pupils, esp LP pupils

2) The self-directed-ness (and self management) of pupils in watching & learning the content given, doing their tasks properly, and not being distracted by other things while using the e-platforms/ digital devices

3) The ease of monitoring/ marking the pupils' work to track their progress/ point out their gaps, etc for the teachers - who have to grapple with hard copy work, various digital platforms, apps, etc.

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We need to embrace this new change with an open mindset. Both teachers and pupils need more support to ensure blended learning can be effective. However, will blended learning be beneficial for lower ability pupils who also lack of home support? (For lower ability pupils) How can teachers bridge the learning gap without having to reteach the concepts again in class?

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There are 100 and 1 possibilities and the sky is the limit for the integration of online learning into a blended one. The resources available out there are aplenty and ever-growing. There are many pros and benefits too. However some critical question that we can ask ourselves are how ready are our school/teachers to embark on this? How are we able to invest the time (if given and make available) to start preparing and plan for effective blended lessons to take place?