Around Falkirk East in 80 Days: Education.
There's been significant disruption to schools arising out of the pandemic.
Teachers have adapted quickly to home-based learning, but many parents, pupils and teachers look forward to a return to traditional schooling. But is that enough? Will the debates fuelled by the pandemic about exams, online learning, blended learning, continuous assessment, and so on be quickly forgotten? I hope not.
I want to see a national conversation about how we deliver education in future.
We need to research and capture what can we learn from our experiences over the last year. Did we have the most appropriate exams and assessment methods pre pandemic, or have recent experiences taught us something new?
What different needs have arisen for different subject areas dependent on the extent to which they are skills or text based?
Individual learners have different preferences in terms of learning styles.
Has the pandemic disruption been all negative or have some pupils thrived?
And what about parents - should more to be done to support parents even when schools returned to normal? Would some parents be interested in learning more about supported home study?
The point is we need to find out and we need to learn.
See you tomorrow. Bye.
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This video was Promoted by Linda-Anne Reid on behalf of Michelle Thomson, both at Scottish National Party, Gordon Lamb House, 3 Jackson's Entry, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 8PJ.
Michelle Thomson is the Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate for Falkirk East Constituency at the Scottish Parliament Elections on 6 May 2021.
