The document discusses the struggles and challenges experienced by school systems during the COVID-19 pandemic and periods of uncertainty. It identifies 7 areas of concern for managing a remote workforce and responding quickly to unforeseen circumstances. Developing strong continuity plans for learning and ensuring quality instruction during the crisis was difficult. Maintaining morale, crafting remote lessons, and assessing student learning progress also presented hardships. Performance management of teachers and staff became challenging. The pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of students, teachers, and personnel as well.
The document discusses the struggles and challenges experienced by school systems during the COVID-19 pandemic and periods of uncertainty. It identifies 7 areas of concern for managing a remote workforce and responding quickly to unforeseen circumstances. Developing strong continuity plans for learning and ensuring quality instruction during the crisis was difficult. Maintaining morale, crafting remote lessons, and assessing student learning progress also presented hardships. Performance management of teachers and staff became challenging. The pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of students, teachers, and personnel as well.
The document discusses the struggles and challenges experienced by school systems during the COVID-19 pandemic and periods of uncertainty. It identifies 7 areas of concern for managing a remote workforce and responding quickly to unforeseen circumstances. Developing strong continuity plans for learning and ensuring quality instruction during the crisis was difficult. Maintaining morale, crafting remote lessons, and assessing student learning progress also presented hardships. Performance management of teachers and staff became challenging. The pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of students, teachers, and personnel as well.
Task: School analysis on what are the struggles/challenges experienced during uncertainty relative to the SBM core principles assigned to your group.
ACCOUNTABILITY AND CONTINOUS IMPROVEMENT
A clear, transparent, inclusive and responsive accountability system is in place, collaboratively developed by community stakeholders, which monitors expected and actual performance, continually addresses the gaps, and ensures a venue for feedback and redress. AREA OF CONCERNS 1. Challenges on managing a work from home work force during pandemic. 2. Difficulty to quickly adopt strategies to address the situation. 3. To respond and think quickly and creatively to solve problems faced during COVID 19 pandemic. 4. Difficulty in navigating from unforeseen circumstances and from shifting normal to new normal. Crisis Management Plan 5. Absence of a strong, cross-function response core team. 6. Challenges in keeping learners, school personnel and working environment safe. 7. Overwhelming uncertainty about the length of the pandemic, the direction of the educational outcomes, and the unknown impact to the educational landscape. Learning Continuity Plan 1. Demands to determine the standard of teaching to uphold the quality of instruction amidst global health crisis. 2. Driving and sustaining professional and career growth among school personnel is especially difficult to achieve in this situation. 3. Maintaining and building morale with leadership of School Heads teams, teachers and other school personnel. 4. Difficulty in crafting learning activity sheets and canned lessons for continuity of instruction. 5. The challenge of shifting of trajectory towards flexibility in teaching design, delivery, and assessment. 6. Hardship on the distribution and retrieval of learning modules and the authenticity of learners’ output. 7. The encountered difficulties with the internet connections at times. 8. Challenges on how to monitor assessment learning progress and to keep the integrity of grades. Recognition and Incentive 1. Challenges on performance appraisal of School Heads, teachers and other school personnel. System 2. Delayed setting performance targets and performance appraisal. Accountability and 1. Difficulty in the conduct of school monitoring and evaluation. Assessment 2. Challenges on the authenticity of schools’ performance assessment result. 3. Adjustment to the present accountability systems so that the data they provide are more actionable for a variety of stakeholder in providing quality and effective learning opportunities and resources during pandemic. Psycho-Social Learners, teachers, School Heads and other school personnel are dealing with coronavirus-related stress and mental health issues. Intervention/First Aid for Human Induced Hazard