Addressing challenges facing schools in the time of a pandemic
This two-year project addresses the challenges that schools have faced due to Covid-19 and in particular how schools manage to continue to teach during periods of closure. It aims to develop a package of training materials and resources at a European level to upskill school leaders and teachers in developing new online and blended learning approaches to the delivery of the curriculum at times when normal education is disrupted due to school closure or the enforced absence of teachers and students.
The target age group is the Secondary sector, and the project brings together 6 partners from 5 countries.
Partners will address the different types of disruption, the elements of blended learning, the challenges faced at a school level in implementing online and blended approaches, the skill sets required in both staff and students by developing and trialing models of blended learning and associated training and implementation resources.
The objectives of the project are to:
• collate existing practice of online and blended learning in the partner countries and identify priorities for development
• produce a set of guidance for moving to online and blended learning at a school policy level
• develop and deliver training resources for teachers and support staff on how to deliver effective online and blended learning
• pilot, test, evaluate and refine the training and models in 5 Secondary schools in 5 countries in a range of different subjects and age groups
• evaluate the impact on learning and motivation, including data and feedback from students, teachers and parents
• create a set of case studies from each country
• disseminate the outcomes widely
Intellectual Output 1 – Online and blended learning approaches
The objectives of this Output are to:
Identify the different strategies in the different partner countries to manage the challenges of school closures and to develop a set of guidance and training resources of 4 modules covering:
- Preparing an effective online learning approach
- Specific subject needs
- Maximising engagement
- Assessment
Intellectual Output 2 – A digitized set of training and teaching resources, blended and online learning modules and impact report
The objectives of this Output are to:
- Use the training resources to train 10 teachers/non-teaching staff per school
- Pilot the models with 100 pupils per country
- Evaluate and finalise the 4 modules
- Evaluate the impact
- Produce an impact report and handbook and digitise the resources