Positive Behaviours for Learning Strategies During Remote Learning
A number of parents have shared with staff that keeping their child motivated and engaged in remote learning can be challenging. Below are some strategies and tips for keeping your child engaged, interested and focused during remote learning.
Ensure the learning space at home remains in place
- Organising the learning space each afternoon for the next day will help your child be ready to learn each morning.
Keep your family routines going
- Be flexible with the Daily Learning plans and make it work for your family. Change the order of learning tasks if needed and support your child to get the work done when it works for you.
- Younger children need more structure, so make sure to let them know what to expect. Use the Daily Learning Plans to help plan out the day.
- Have your child follow a routine as if they're going to school, e.g. getting dressed, brushing teeth, etc.
- Movement and brain breaks are really important, especially for children with learning and attention difficulties, so make sure to build those in and break work into smaller pieces if needed.
- Plan to take a break with your children, have fun together.
Take time to review expectations
- Go over the PB4L expectations- this is what the school expects during online learning.
Set some expectations of your own as well. When can your child expect to spend time with you? When should they avoid interrupting you? What can they do in their downtime? Come up with a list of "must-dos" and "may-dos" together to cover the essentials and activities of choice.