Support ākonga and whānau during hybrid learning
In a hybrid learning environment, it is critical that students stay strongly connected to their school community.
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Build student and whānau confidence
Build student and whānau confidence
Discuss with students what will support their participation and motivation, both at school and when working remotely.
Build these suggestions into your teacher practice.
- Familiarise your students and whānau with hybrid learning platforms and systems. For example accessing learning, feedback, reporting, support and pastoral care.
- Create visuals and step by step guides to help students remember systems.
- Empower ākonga by helping them to understand what helps them to learn both at school and when working remotely.
- Provide opportunities for ongoing student and whānau feedback to identify issues and opportunities for improving the hybrid approaches.
- Provide strategies, thinking frameworks and pathways for when students get stuck.
- Provide opportunities for students to collaborate, even when some or all are working remotely.
Maintain personal connections
Maintain personal connections
Support student agency
Support student agency
Connect students and whānau with visible learning
Connect students and whānau with visible learning
Strengthen information sharing
Strengthen information sharing
- Empower both ākonga and whānau by making learning visible. Make content, activities, learning outcomes and success criteria available anytime and anywhere.
- Develop systems for passing on information about a student’s needs, progress and next steps.
- Create flexible systems to cater for different needs, age or stage and levels of autonomy.
- Encourage whānau to share what they have noticed or assessments they have had done outside school.
Provide anywhere, any time rewindable learning
Provide anywhere, any time rewindable learning
Next steps
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- Understand the need for hybrid learning
- Develop your hybrid learning vision
- Gather information to guide hybrid approaches
- Design with ākonga variability in mind
- Support ākonga and whānau during hybrid learning