Teaching in times of covid-19
The LEARN teams supported EPFL teachers and primary school educators in implementing and adapting distance and hybrid teaching in the unexpected and imposed context of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
The teams at the Center LEARN provided support for teachers at different levels in their efforts to setup and constantly adapt their distance and blended teaching. LEARN teams worked with teachers to face the sudden switch to distance teaching during the lockdown. Part of the team worked with EPFL teachers, while others focused on teachers in public primary schools.
Our aim is to make these resources available to all teachers across institutions and levels. Some of these resources are translated in English and in French.
Support for teachers at EPFL
As a means to continously minimize the risk of transmission of covid-19, the Center for Digital Education (CEDE) and the Teaching Support Center (CAPE) have set up documentation, workhops and a helpdesk to support EPFL teachers in mixing online and on-campus teaching modes. Their ressources are regularly updated.
Support for teachers in primary schools
Since 2018, the LEARN Center has been working with the Department of Education, Youth and Culture (DFJC) of Canton Vaud on the “Digital Education” project, in collaboration with HEP Vaud and UNIL. The phase of distance learning offered a particular challenge to teachers: to ensure continuity of learning for students and to maintain the link with families. The LEARN team wished to support them in the definition and implementation of this new task, with the tools at their disposal while remobilising the content already seen in the training that is part of the project.
We proposed, in collaboration with HEP Vaud, online sessions starting one week after the beginning of lockdown in 2020. These short and operational sessions helped to co-construct remote teaching.
The resources shared here are in French:
- Défis 1 – Démarrer l’enseignement à distance
- Défi 2 – Organiser ma première classe virtuelle
- Défi 3 – Animer ma classe virtuelle
- Défi 4 – Interroger ma classe à distance
- Défi 5 – Lecture d’histoires à distance
- Défi 6 – Parler du covid-19 avec les enfants
- Défi 7 – Aborder le covid-19 en classe
LEARN collaborated with Edit Change Management to create a trilogy of picture books, called Oscar & Zoe, to address the digital challenges related to the pandemic (e.g. fake news, screen time management).
