Teachers Happy with Distance Learning/Online Sessions

It’s been a little less than a year since the schools were closed countrywide.  This new model of learning means parents collect school packages, and teachers and students interact virtually.  The Ministry of Education decided that schools will remain close to face to face learning until it is deemed safe for students and teachers to return to the classroom.  The ministry explained that the strictest possible standards of behaviour for all health and well-being must be maintained. And so as distance learning continues, teachers and students still face some challenges. However, B.N.T.U. National President, Senator Elena Smith explained that teachers and students continue to work together.

Elena Smith

Elena Smith, National President, B.N.T.U.

“Some of the same concerns remain in terms of the submission of work from our students, in terms of the access that some of them have, in terms of some of the teachers since they are in the rural areas and a little bit in terms of the extra work if you will because they have to be preparing for online plus packages. So that is a bit more than they would normally be doing because some of them don’t have adequate training in the use of some of that plan form. All in all we have a lot of feedback. Some teachers are that they are happy with the online. They like it much better because it gives them a chance to actually see their students and be able to interact with them a little bit more as oppose to just sending packages. So they have been some positives and some negatives as we would expect in everything that we do and for the first time.”