The Department of Education has announced that innovations in education made by schools and teachers while students were learning from home during the pandemic were being collected with a view to retaining improvements.
Minister for Education and Early Learning, Sarah Mitchell requested the move to capture advances and examples of school innovation and help change education for the better.
“The shift to learning from home was a challenge the entire system met successfully,” Ms Mitchell said.
“Everyone from department staff, teachers, principals, parents and students had to adapt,” she said.
“All sorts of solutions to a range of challenges had to be found.”
“I want to make sure that these innovations are recorded and, if appropriate, expanded.”
Ms Mitchell said great ideas around teaching practices, technology use and partnerships between families and schools blossomed while children were learning from home, and it would be a loss not to collect them.
The Department responded by saying teachers across the State from both Government and non-Government schools felt encouraged to share their innovative practices developed during COVID-19 to help foster improvement.
It said a collection of case studies would be published during Term Three, with the most effective approaches examined in a wider review to look at key findings for education during the pandemic.
The Department said teachers and their colleagues could submit their innovative practice by 15 July.
Further information, including how to submit can be accessed at this PS News link.
