Teaching remotely for supplementary schools: sharing good practice

While schools, retail, outdoor parks, faith buildings are slowly reopening their doors (and gates) to socially-distanced individuals the landscape for community-led children’s activities continues to be remote. But you are needed, your support for children, young people and families over the last three months has been amazing. Children need community-led learning as much as ever, for the same reasons: to build self-confidence, to deepen knowledge of mother-tongue and heritage languages, to reach their true potential, to know who they are and that they can achieve as they are. We have seen much innovation in remote and online teaching and learning and will continue to facilitate your sharing of best practice and ideas.

In this 2-part webinar we look at how community-led supplementary schools can engage with their pupils remotely.

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Session 1: independent languages consultant from the UK, Joe Dale showcases a variety of examples of good practice in online teaching from building a Seesaw classroom to playing interactive activities such as Kahoot to promote all four language skills.

• An overview of articles and resources around remote teaching, highlighting the TiLT webinar series
• Advice on security features using videoconferencing tools such as Zoom including addressing safeguarding issues
• Using Seesaw to create activities and privately share multimedia content including screencasts and give written and audio feedback.
• Using Kahoot to create multiple-choice exercises with embedded YouTube clips for remote listening and reading through gamification.
• Q&A

Watch session 1 here

Session 2: Remote teaching for supplementary schools: Integrating formative assessment into remote lessons.

• Mentimeter to poll students’ opinion and check in with them
• Jamboard to storyboard, brainstorm and co-create multimedia remotely
• Screencasting for creating presentations and giving video feedback with Screencastify, Loom and Screencast-O-Matic
• Socrative to create self-marking vocabulary tests
• Quizizz for a range of interactive activities including audio questions for remote listening through gamification
• Google Forms to make self-marking quizzes
• Practising speaking asynchronously with QWIQR conversations
• Q&A

Watch Session 2 here

Follow up on your experience using these platforms and activities and build on that with a whole host of accessible and free resources to support remote teaching.

Guidance on all forms of teaching and learning while supplementary schools are unable to meet face-to-face.

For information on how to ensure that your practice is safe and effective, check our Guidelines for supplementary schools teaching remotely