Challenges and Benefits
Challenges
- Technological challenges for both students and teachers
- Challenges with audio and Smartboard settings
- Online students have difficulty hearing in-person students at times
- Connecting with and involving both online and in-person students
- Increase in workload and prep time at first
- Covid-19 self assessments and protocols
- Maintaining PBLA portfolios for online and in-person students
- Front-end staff involvement (e.g. distributing handouts to in-person students when the teacher was online)
- Classroom management
- Some students may feel neglected if teacher doesn’t balance time appropriately
- Flexibility for teachers and students
- Benefit of in-person instruction and online attendance when in-person attendance isn’t possible
- Lesson prep and classroom management becomes instinctive and routine
- Class notes and documents are emailed to everyone
- In-person students can maximize their learning – digital and physical study
- In-person students can study material from missed classes
- Minimal disruption of service to students
- Increase in digital literacy skills for everyone involved
- Increased outreach to students and teachers
- HyFlex classes to continue after Covid-19!!