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The Department not giving us enough support and setting unrealistic expectations...

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When putting together activities for home learning  we didn’t take into consideration websites not working at school on devices without the students logging in independently which is challenging for younger grades.

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Forgetting to remember the well-being of the child/family. It was all so very complex. Every child and family situation was different.

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Children not aware of where the feed back went. (Email through their portal )😳

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Finding an appropriate work station at home.

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Did the child actually complete the work or was it the parent?

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Too much screen time.

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We make things bigger than they need to be. It’s a few weeks out of a whole life. In the grand scheme of things we need to relax.

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Expecting students to be able to learn online when we didn’t have time to teach them how to use the technology before they were in the online environment

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Students who came to school but whose parents were at home.

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Spending considerable time giving feedback not entirely sure whether that feedback was useful or even read

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Feeling sometimes overstaffed on a grade and it not really necessary for everyone to be on site, especially when everyone was so exhausted

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Feeling isolated!!

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Difficult to see what students could do independently, parents were over assisting with a lot of work so it was completely perfectly with everything correct

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Getting the balance of content volume right

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Teachers’ health not considered in government decision-making

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Teachers’ health not considered in government decision-making

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Very time-consuming to put online lessons together especially with the younger grades where each lesson required a voice recording of the instructions (working on the assumption that they can’t read)

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Very time-consuming to put online lessons together especially with the younger grades where each lesson required a voice recording of the instructions (working on the assumption that they can’t read)

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Over organising & planning for things that didn’t happen

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Not being there for the students in your class all the time that require extra assistance for those who you know that rely on you even though you were at school.

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difficulties for dependent learners were exacerbated

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Quality of work, in many cases was poor. Follow up was needed and you were never quite sure how the comment was interpreted by students and parent.

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Difficult to assess students understanding in topics

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Responding to student questions in a timely manner

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Using YouTube and safeshare was very frustrating as it often wouldn't work at school or at home.

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Sometimes it felt like we were always just responding to the feed back to throughout the day. 

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Sometimes it felt like we were always just responding to the feed back to throughout the day. 

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Poor quality of work submitted.

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Students were overly stimulated by technology and weren't able to concentrate once they were back !!!

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Learning how to maximise Google classroom on the run !

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Mentally exhausted.

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Challenging to support students who had minimal interest and engagement

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Students and parents not reading task instructions

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Students and parents not reading task instructions

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Some days it was double the work, teaching the essential workers children while trying to monitor and provide feedback to your own class online

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Some staff in support roles finding ways to be effective during at home learning phase

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To much micro management

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Juggling work needs with home/own children’s needs

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So many meetings.

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So many meetings!!

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Work life balance was very difficult

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Toooooooooo many zoom meetings!

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Making instruction simple and easy to follow for students

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Making instruction simple and easy to follow for students

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The left overs.....

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Long days...

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Hard to give students feedback.

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Not all students completing the set tasks.

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Exhaustion. I have never been so tired as I was at the end of last term.

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Daily changes, teaching the left over essential kids who weren’t really ‘essential’. Longer days and mentally exhausting.

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The speed needed to upskill in preparation for online learning

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Expectations to use technology without time for training

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There was far too much info being sent. The senior exec should have given everyone the highlights & sent links to find more detail if we needed

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Expecting students to be able to use the technology but we never actually taught them how to use it before moving to online learning

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Being up to date and adapting to all new changes

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Internet troubles.
When students returned it was hard to gain their attention for longer periods of time.

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Playground issues were more evident with segregated areas for each grade.

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Things changing daily was challenging.

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Supporting students with learning difficulties

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A truly exhausting period of time - content, feedback, parent contact, changing situation ...

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Too much admin and programming, not enough focus on wellbeing, constant changes