A complete list of what to do — and not do — for everyone teaching kids at home during the coronavirus crisis - The Washington Post

A complete list of what to do — and not do — for everyone teaching kids at home during the coronavirus crisis - The Washington Post

A complete list of what to do — and not do — for everyone teaching kids at home during the coronavirus crisis

With most of the world’s schools shut because of the coronavirus crisis, you can now find a lot of advice on the Internet about the best ways to carry out distance learning at home, where more than 1.5 billion students are now supposed to be getting their lessons. I’ve even published some, from a teacher and former home-schooler, which you can see here.

But if you want a thorough rundown of what to do and not to do, read the following 19 strategies from renowned master educator Andy Hargreaves.

Hargreaves, a research professor at Boston College and visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, has been working for decades to improve school effectiveness. He has been awarded visiting professorships in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Sweden, Spain, Japan, Norway and Singapore. And he is past president of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement.

Hargreaves founded and serves as co-president of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory, or ARC, a group of nine nations committed to broadly defined excellence, equity, well-being, inclusion, democracy and human rights. He has consulted with numerous governments, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, universities and professional associations. He has written more than 30 books — and received numerous awards for them — and he was the founding editor in chief of the Journal of Educational Change.

A different version of this piece was published in the London Times Supplement.

By Andy Hargreaves

Educators are doing extraordinary things in the face of the coronavirus crisis. They are our invisible heroes, supporting health services and reinventing the way they provide education. They are achieving CONTINUE READING: A complete list of what to do — and not do — for everyone teaching kids at home during the coronavirus crisis - The Washington Post