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- Teaching and Learning at a Distance - Primary School
Teaching and Learning at a Distance - Primary School
While the Department PDST has developed a dedicated webpage of curated content to supports schools in distance learning, Educate Together has also created this space for teaching personnel in primary schools to share resources for distance teaching and learning. The space is open for all primary teaching staff in the education sector to share resources and ideas.
- Extended closure of schools until 19th April
- Important social distancing information in 17 languages
- Information about the continuity of teaching and learning
Please use this space to communicate with other teachers who are trying to support their pupils to continue their education at home. Share your ideas, ask others for inspiration, share a website that you've come across, etc. It's your space.
Supporting distance learning around the Learn Together
Educate Together would also like to support learning around the Learn Together at this time. As such, we've highlighted the resources below.
Educate Together was involved in this resource as were the National Museum of Ireland and the Royal Academy. The stories of these objects are wonderful, told in child-friendly language and engender a sense of awe and wonder. For now, we'd recommend the following:
Below some wonderful resources. Right now, it's probably best to stay away from difficult issues such as climate change, loss of animal species, plastic pollution etc. to avoid increasing anxiety. Best to stay focussed and positive!
It's impossible to overstate how wonderful this animated video is. Wangari Maathai, Noble Prize Winner, talks about how we can all make a difference, no matter how small!
Keep safe and healthy and positive!
