UAE schools are updating teaching and learning methodologies to prevent any learning loss . Image Credit: Shutterstock
Corona-induced learning loss in children is for real in both academic learning and areas of social and emotional skills, alarmed educators from across the world have said. Several reports have emphasised that students have already lost a significant amount of earned achievement levels over the extended period of remote and blended learning.
In a recent survey by McKinsey & Company, teachers globally have highlighted that a computer is no match for a classroom as a place for kids to learn. While the pandemic has forced schools to adopt e-learning, the survey suggests that students have paid a heavy price in lost learning.
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UAE schools share strategies to help lessen learning loss among students post-Covid Image Credit: The Aquila School
A study conducted in the US by global consultancy firm McKinsey within the school community during the fall months in 2020 revealed an acute sense of learning loss among students after they started their classes close to three months behind schedule. And while the study results were endemic to the US, the effects of the pandemic on students and resulting learning loss have been keenly felt across the globe.
The UAE education sector has always monitored global trends and tried to assimilate best practices as quickly as possible post-observation. The pandemic and the sense of learning loss felt by students and conveyed by their parents to staff was quickly analysed therefore, resulting in a host of individual premier UAE schools putting steps in place to mitigate the effects.
UAE schools address parental fears on getting kids back in classrooms Image Credit: Shutterstock
Parents continue to show concern and remain apprehensive as school gates opened to welcome students back to conventional classrooms this month after the pandemic lockdown and the resultant distance learning initiatives undertaken by UAE educational institutions. Physical distancing, maintenance of hygiene in public spaces and gatherings and the loss of learning are all issues plaguing the parents’ minds. However, UAE schools have been a step ahead in the process, with systems and checks in place to assuage parents and their wards that things are all right.