Teaching in a Physically Distant Classroom
1-2pm online
This event forms part of the Learning and Teaching through COVID-recovery conference
Speakers: Blair Minchin (Edinburgh based primary teacher of key-worker children) and Pippa Joyce (Mayfield Primary school teacher), Dr Holly Linklater, University of Edinburgh
Join Holly Linklater (Moray House School of Education and Sport) and teachers Blair Minchin (Victoria Primary School, Edinburgh) and Pippa Joyce (Mayfield Primary School, Cambridge) to discuss their experiences of physically distant teaching since the start of lockdown, and how this is changing as some children return to school. We’ll talk about the logisitcal challenges that schools have been faced with and the different ways they responded, what happened to the school curriculum, and how pedagogy has had to change, and is still evolving. There will be Q&A and discussion from the audience and panel members.