National Overviews
Remote Learning Practice
Education Scotland have engaged in a series of national overviews of remote learning practice. These reviews have engaged a variety of stakeholders, documented a variety of views and hold a number of recommendations within each report. We have tried to provide a brief outline of the key recommendations within each report and indexed pages within this site that may help you.
Local Authorities
Ensure local authority planning, guidance and delivery for remote learning is updated to reflect the entitlements and expectations published on 8 January 2021.
Provide further professional learning for staff in local authorities and schools with a particular focus on the pedagogy of remote learning.
Continue work to ensure equitable access to digital devices and online access for learners and staff.
Provide ongoing communication and engagement with parents about what remote learning is and the approach being taken by local authorities and schools to ensure a shared understanding.
Continue to provide health and wellbeing support to learners, parents and staff.
Develop and implement, at pace, approaches at local authority level to assure the provision of high quality remote learning delivered by individual schools.
Schools
Ensure school planning and guidance for the delivery of remote learning is updated to reflect the entitlements and expectations published on 8 January 2021.
Ensure children and young people experience high quality remote learning across the breadth of the curriculum.
Continue to review approaches to learning and teaching to ensure learners receive an appropriate balance of live, recorded and independent learning.
Ensure learners are aware of the progress they are making in their learning and what they need to do to improve.
Build on existing good practice to continue to support the health and wellbeing of learners and their families, staff and the school community.
Develop and implement approaches to continually review the quality and impact of remote learning to ensure all learners receive consistently high quality experiences.
Parents, carers and learners
Provide regular check-ins and opportunities for learners to meet up online with peers in order to support wellbeing, and collaboration.
Ensure plans and guidance for remote learning are shared with learners and parents, including the balance of live learning and independent activity.
Engage with learners and parents to gather feedback on remote learning to identify what is working well and what needs to improve.
Continue to place an emphasis on supporting the health and wellbeing of learners, parents and practitioners.
Provide learning that is responsive to learners’ needs, including for those children and young people who require additional support for learning or may be disadvantaged.
Provide parents and learners in the senior phase with information and support to help alleviate any concerns and worries over arrangements for assessment and National Qualifications.
Meeting learning needs, including those with additional support needs
Provide tasks and activities that provide the right level of challenge for all learners, including those with additional support needs.
Further develop approaches to monitoring and tracking children’s and young people’s progress so that teachers can build on what children and young people already know.
Ensure support planning is reviewed regularly in partnership with learners and parents to help meet the needs of children and young people.
Share approaches taken by schools to provide personalised support for those children and young people with complex additional support needs.
Learning entitlements for children and young people
Ensure the curriculum provides all children and young people with breadth and depth in their learning.
Support all children and young people to receive their entitlements to, and engage in, remote learning.
Provide all children and young people with opportunities to revisit learning when required.
Ensure that all children and young people receive regular feedback on their learning and the progress they are making.
Provide support for parents to help children and young people engage in remote learning.