In short, Remote Learning occurs when teachers and students move a normally in-person class to a temporary online space. Remote Learning is a kind of eLearning (or ‘online learning’) but isn’t ‘online learning’ because it is not learning that is designed for purely digital spaces (whereas eLearning is). Bellow are remote learning tips for parents to help during covid-19 pandemic.

Help your child build a learning network

Connect them with their peers–ideally peers with similar goals and approaches to ‘life’ to their own.

Help them find their own motivation

I tried to word this carefully because children range so drastically in not only their levels of motivation and where that motivation comes from. Further, the dynamic of parent-to-child is necessarily different from the parents-as-teacher-to-child. However, motivating a child is one area where parents are (ideally) better than any teacher could be.

Honor the complexity of learning

Think differently about ‘helping’ your child ‘with their school work.’ Realize that your child needs a wide range of ‘support’: academic, collaborative, psychological, technological, disciplinary, etc.

Personalize the learning

You can almost always personalize your child’s learning space (sound, light, room, equipment, etc.) and you can likely adjust their schedule. You may even have some control over the curriculum (what they are learning). Use your child’s strengths and gifts and build backward from them as much as possible.

Learn to identify the barriers

This is something teachers have to learn early on in their careers–how to pinpoint exactly what’s happening or going wrong. Diagnostic teaching is one approach that can help here but the big idea is to identify precisely why your child might be struggling: Is it focus? Motivation? Too much or too little structure? Do they need a hug or finger-wagging or for you to sit with them?

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Help them check messages and communicate with school

Check for messages daily from teachers and other students and make sure to reply to any messages that require one.

Make sure all work is completed

And any work that remains incomplete is incomplete for a good reason and has a time-bound, actionable next-step.

Don’t teach–help them understand

Helping students understand is one of the more obvious remote learning tips for parents. This could be the topic for an entire book because how this happens is complicated and varies greatly from student to student and grade level to grade level and content area to content area.

Provide an environment conducive to learning

This isn’t always easy. If they’re too isolated, it’s difficult to check in with them. If they’re at the kitchen table, depending on the child or their environment, they may be too distracted. This is even more challenging when everyone is home and the house is full.

What is the biggest challenge you encounter with remote learning as a parent?

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