No blackboard teaching please during Covid-19 shut down
Coronavirus has created a major challenge in our education system. Schools are closed for many months, and teachers are finding ways to teach students remotely. But many are hopelessly failing at it, some think that it doesn’t work as there is limited evidence in support of remote learning in case of kids while others are trying to make it work. Remote learning requires a different set of tools and different ways of handling students, but the first principles of pedagogy remains the same. Old habits die hard. Many teachers started blackboard teaching through lecturing remotely through the zoom app or other apps like skype. What is blackboard teaching? Blackboard teaching is when communication is one-sided with little student engagement. The teacher lectures the content and students listen. But there are serious problems with it. Here are some of the compilation about patterns of bad teaching: Patterns for bad practices of teaching Remember, a well-designed video ...