Norwood International High School is committed to ensuring the continuity of student learning. In the event of a school closure the school has developed the following guidelines to minimise disruption and support students in their continued engagement and connection to learning.

Our students are fortunate to have access to a number of online systems that will enable them to receive lesson instructions, tasks and teacher support. To ensure the effective implementation of these guidelines we seek parent support and partnership in learning.

What does online learning look like?

Online learning may look different for everyone. Rather than sitting in a physical classroom, students will now participate in a virtual classroom and connect with their teacher and classmates through different online platforms.

Teachers will use a variety of online tools for different subjects and classes, however the message remains consistent: Students will continue to remain focused, engaged and supported in their learning to be successful – just in a different way.

Key Priorities

It is expected that staff will follow these Online Learning Guidelines.
Daymap will be used as the primary form of communication between students and teachers. All lesson plans, instructions and resources will be published on Daymap by the teacher, including links to other websites and platforms.
Students will be following their timetables during this time. Students will be contacted directly by their teacher at least once per week. This contact will involve a scheduled video conference that is communicated to students via Daymap prior to the session.
Teachers are required to respond to student Daymap messages and parent queries as soon as possible.

Protective Practices

All staff and students are aware of the required child protection practices and protocols. To ensure the online safety of staff and students:

All digital contact must only relate to normal teaching and learning responsibilities.
Any staff that are working from home are not to use personal communication devices to contact parents/caregivers or students.
No sharing of personal internet locations, correspondence of a personal nature via social media, internet postings, or use of private online chat rooms.
No uploading or publishing of still/moving images or audio recordings of students to any location other than MS Teams or Daymap.
Any uploaded audio/video footage must be secured to minimise risk of students re-publishing.
Staff are encouraged, where possible, not to engage in video conferences with single students, unless accompanied by another staff member and/or parent.
In the event of a staff member, or student, feeling unsafe at any point in the video communication, they should cease the interaction immediately and let the appropriate staff, or trusted adult, know of the situation. At school, this would be a member of the Executive Team.

Please refer to the additional protective practices guidelines available on the DfE Intranet here: Click Here (will require Learnlink Login)

Expectations and Guidelines

To ensure the effective and consistent delivery of teaching and learning programs all teachers are expected to follow these guidelines:

Timetable: Plan lessons to be delivered as per the standard lesson times on your timetable.
Lesson plans and instructions: Provide instructions via Daymap lesson note for each lesson.
'Live Lessons': You are expected to undertake at least one 'Live Lesson' via video conference with your students during one of your timetabled lessons each week. This can be via Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet. Links to these 'Live Lessons' need to be posted to the lesson on Daymap and sent to students at least 24 hours prior to the lesson. This is a valuable opportunity to deliver live and interactive lessons, check student's understanding and to monitor their progress and wellbeing.

Protocols for 'Live Lessons' for teachers and students:

Develop and reinforce protocols with students:
- - - Provide opportunities in the 'Live Lesson' for students to ask questions, undertake collaborative work and connect with others in the class
    - Join sessions on time
    - Engage respectfully and use appropriate language with all participants. Teachers may block or mute students if they behave inappropriately and should follow up by contact the parent and documenting the incident in Daymap.
    - Request that students mute their microphone, unless speaking
    - Wear school uniform polo, shirt of jumper for sessions
Change your background to the standard image or to one colour
Encourage students to actively participate and contribute in group discussions/collaborations
Be appropriately dressed in a professional manner for ‘Live Lessons'

Subject Support: Respond to any student messages during the normal scheduled lesson or as soon as possible.
Modification of Tasks, Programs and Due Dates: Modify tasks and programs to ensure that lessons and tasks for your subject can be completed at home in an online environment. For example, consider how practical lessons could be delivered in a different way. Any changes to due dates or task requirements must be communicated via lesson notes and Daymap tasks. SACE teachers should record any changes on the Addendum in their SACE LAPs.
Student Support: All teachers must accommodate for students with learning needs, EAL backgrounds and special provisions.
Assessment Tasks and Marking: Publish formative and summative assessment tasks via Daymap. Ensure grades and comments for these tasks are published within two weeks of task completion. Teachers will follow up with students and parents for non-submission of work as per the process outlined in the 'Monitoring Student Engagement and Wellbeing' section.
Breaks: It is recommended that staff take a break away from their screens between lessons and for the entirety of scheduled break times. Teachers should encourage students to take breaks in between lessons.

Student Attendance

It is a DfE requirement that we check in with students every day during the online learning period and record attendance for our lessons. This ensures we are monitoring student engagement in the online learning program and maintaining an accurate record of student attendance. During online learning managing student attendance will involve the following:

Daily Check-ins: Lesson 5 on both campuses.

If you have a lesson during this time, you will be required to check-in with students for your class and mark attendance on Daymap.

If you ARE delivering a Live Lesson during the daily check-in time:

Record student who are present in your video conference as 00 in Daymap. Any students

not present mark as U.

If you are NOT delivering a live lesson during the daily check-in time:

Message your class via Daymap and asking them to respond to your message before the lesson is completed. Mark the students who respond as 00 and students who do not respond as U.

Live Lessons:

Teachers are expected to deliver at least one Live Lesson via video conference during a timetabled lesson each week. Attendance for the live lesson needs to be recorded on Daymap during or immediately at the conclusion of the lesson. Students who are present during to ‘Live Lesson’ are recorded as 00 and students not present as U.

Other Lessons:

Students will be marked as H for all other lessons where they are following instructions on Daymap and completing self-directed learning activities.

Recording Non-Attendance:

Parents will be notified using the current text messaging system for unexplained absences. Other absence codes (eg Family, Illness, Late) will continue to be used as normal.

Managing Non-Attendance

If a student is absent for two consecutive Live Lessons or Daily Check-ins you need to contact the parent/caregiver via email or phone. These actions must be documented in Daymap Notes. If you are unable to contact the parent/caregiver or the student does not attend a third consecutive Live Lesson, please inform the student's Learning Community Leader via email.

Attendance Codes:

H – this code will be used to record students who are participating in online learning at home.

U - this code will be used to record students who are absent from a 'live' lesson or an unexplained absence from school.

Connect Teacher Responsibilities

Connect will continue to be an important program in supporting student wellbeing, particularly in an online learning environment. Students working from home may be isolated, therefore the continual connection with their connect teacher is integral. Connect teachers have an essential role in connecting with students in their connect to continue to develop positive relationships, provide support and monitor progress and wellbeing.

Student Expectations:

Students are expected to engage in a weekly video conference with their connect teacher (this may be as a whole class or in small groups).
Students are expected to complete a weekly check-in activity to provide an update to their connect teacher about their progress and wellbeing.

Staff Expectations

Teachers are expected to schedule a Live Lesson via video conference with their connect class twice over the two weeks. This is an opportunity for you to check-in on their learning, health and wellbeing.

Some suggested discussion questions may be: How are things going for you and your family? How are you going? Do you require any support with your learning? Are you exercising in some way at home? What have you been eating?
Connect teacher responsibilities remain - being the first port of call, sharing information and monitoring student engagement and progress (with support of campus management teams)
Any concerns should be referred via the Student Wellbeing Referral Form via DayMap

Pedagogy to Support Online Education

The remote and online delivery of teaching requires a pedagogical shift to ensure effective student engagement and learning. This shift involves using new approaches and re-designing teaching and learning programs, where possible. A traditional approach, particularly direct instruction or “chalk-and-talk", will not be an effective method in an online environment. Effective online education involves a varied, flexible and personalised approach.

Variation involves the use of different approaches and tools to support student engagement. These approaches can include a combination of the following:

Live lessons delivered through live streaming or video conferencing
Recorded lessons delivered through vodcasts, screen-casts or presentations (with video or voice-overs)
Digital resources such as articles, videos, eBooks, apps (including STILE Science App) or websites, for students to engage in
Formative assessment through forms, quizzes and other tools to measure understanding
Live discussions via chats or video conferencing
Discussions through forums or posts where students and teachers can make comments to collaborate
Digital task creation and feedback. This can be collaborative or individual and be based on Google documents or Word 365. These cloud-based programs can allow teachers to provide comments and feedback within the task.

This teaching and learning program is brought together and delivered through a Virtual Learning Environment.

Flexibility and personalisation ensures that all students are supported and can engage in the learning program. This involves:

Open tasks with options to facilitate student choice and interests.
Flexible delivery, where students undertake tasks in own time (when not attending live lessons).
Flexible and negotiable ways for students to demonstrate evidence of their learning. Think creatively. Make connections with home tasks and environment. . To support this flexibility, where students will be completing tasks at home, traditional tasks will need to be modified, especially in practical subjects such as PE, Science, D&T and Art. Teachers of these subjects will need to consider creative ways for students to demonstrate evidence of their learning.

Online Learning and Virtual Learning Environment

Effective online education involves the planned and considered use of various digital learning applications and platforms to create a Virtual Learning Environment. A virtual learning environment (VLE) is the use of a range of digital learning tools to actively engage students in a sequenced, online learning program. This delivery should be centred around one platform which becomes the virtual classroom, such as Google Classroom, Teams or sites, which brings the learning to one central location. Daymap is a Learning Management System that is used to mark attendance, post lessons instructions, and publish tasks and results.

As in a traditional classroom, the teaching and learning program must be carefully planned and considered to ensure all students are able to access their learning. Simply using a range of technologies is not enough. They must be used as a part of a planned and organised learning program.

Key requirements and Strategies

Clear instructions are posted for students as a lesson note on Daymap. These can include links to other platforms that form your class’ Virtual Learning Environment. You could also include the learning intentions, so that students have a clear understanding of the purpose behind the lesson, tasks and activities.
Use a range of strategies (refer to previous list) to create an engaging Virtual Learning Environment. This should not just be uploading tasks sheets and resources for students to view. There must be opportunities for collaboration and active participation.
Set clear expectations. These can include completion dates and timelines to ensure that students have a clear understanding of what they need to complete.
Understand that the pace and duration of online learning will be different. Tasks may take longer to complete when online.
Live lessons do not need to go for the full duration of a lesson block (e.g. 2 hours). You may only need to have a 30 minute discussion with your class and they can then complete other activities or tasks.

Supporting Student Engagement

All students are expected to actively participate in online learning by attending live lessons and completing tasks. Like in a physical classroom, teachers are expected to monitor the participation and engagement of students. This monitoring takes place through marking attendance for live lessons via Daymap, setting formative and summative assessment tasks, interacting through 'live' lessons and following processes to manage incomplete work.

Assessment and Submission of work

Teachers will provide students with formative and summative assessment tasks to demonstrate their understanding. These tasks must be accompanied with a detailed task sheet with clear instructions, IBMYP criteria (rubric) or SACE Performance Standards and support resources. Students will be expected to upload their summative work on Daymap.

Feedback and assessment results will be published on Daymap.

Supporting Student Wellbeing

The move to online learning will be a significant change for adolescent learners. This transition will involve establishing new routines and schedules, and may involve increased responsibilities at home for some students. This change, and the impact of the pandemic on our society will have an impact on our students’ mental and emotional health. The focus on student wellbeing must remain at the centre of everything we do, as we support them through this uncertain period of time. This support is based on continuing positive relationships and connections with students, creating a safe and supportive learning environment, and monitoring their mental and emotional health.

Further Actions Required:

All staff are expected to monitor student wellbeing during 'Live Lessons'.
Teachers should document any concerns in Daymap Notes. Urgent concerns should be forwarded to the Wellbeing Team immediately via phone or email. All other concerns need to be referred to Student Wellbeing Leaders by completing the Student Wellbeing Referral Form on Daymap.
If necessary, teachers may need to complete an eCARL (Mandatory) Report at https://www.childprotection.sa.gov.au/reporting-child-abuse/report-child-abuse-or-neglect . A copy of the notification summary needs to be emailed (or given) to both Jacqui (Principal) and the relevant Deputy Principal. Further information and guidance is available on the NHS Teams page under the Student Wellbeing Channel.

Online Safety

To ensure the safety of our staff and students in a virtual learning environment we recommend that:

All digital contact is related to teaching and learning or wellbeing
No sharing of personal internet locations, correspondence of a personal nature via social media, internet posting, or use of private online chat rooms
No uploading or publishing still/moving images or audio recordings of students to any location other than Teams, Daymap or Google Classroom
Avoid one to one delivery/ chats/ communication between staff and students.

More information is on the 'Monitoring Student Engagement and Wellbeing' page.

Monitoring Student Engagement and Wellbeing

During online learning the Wellbeing for Learning Team will provide ongoing and close monitoring of vulnerable students.

Members of the team will:

Identify and form a list of vulnerable students who require additional monitoring.
Allocated case managers are to make contact with the student via a Daymap message at least once per week.
- - If the student doesn't respond to the message within 24 hours call the family to check on their wellbeing.
Communicate with teachers to monitor their engagement with the online learning program. This involves:
- - Initially emailing teachers to notify them that you will be monitoring the wellbeing and engagement of a student in their class.
  - Emailing teachers once per week to check on the progress, engagement and wellbeing of each student.

Contact families with any concerns or relevant updates about monitored students.