Why Don’t They Just Read The Bl**dy Instructions???
Some observations on how pupils with weaker literacy skills responded to remote learning during lockdown 2020. Background During lockdown, I was asked to be part of the team managing and supporting the “Key Worker or Vulnerable” cohort who had taken up the offer of a place in school. Naturally, I welcomed the opportunity to “do my bit” and also to have contact – albeit socially distanced – with young people. Our role was to manage, guide and support rather than teach – that would have been vastly unfair on those students not able to attend school. The result was that I spend 15 days in school monitoring the way that students – some of whom I know well – approached their work. Older, more able students, with good literacy skills, were clearly able to navigate the instructions, despite the increased cognitive load. Weaker students were not. My observations I observed pupil after pupil follow a similar pattern: 1. Open the Home Learning portal and choos