International Schools Blog

As COVID-19 continues to dominate the educational landscape, it’s important to ensure your students are set up for learning at home. In this article, IB Diploma teachers Michele Lackovic and Ashley Busse share tips for IB learners around the world to help minimise stress and maximise success.

Learning from home is here to stay, at least for the moment. While school closures came on suddenly, as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, it seems increasingly likely that most students won’t be headed to classes in-person until after the summer break.

Across the world, schools have closed and will re-open at different times, as each country assesses the ongoing risks of the pandemic. ISC’s Will Bedford shares some interesting insights from international schools in China and South East Asia who were some of the first to be closed about how they adapted to school closures, rolled out distance learning programmes and established online pastoral care.

David Grant, full-time writer and consultant, and former Head of English, shares his tips for teaching online at a distance during the coronavirus crisis.

During this difficult time, we know that it can be challenging to find the right support to help you and your learners move forward with distance learning.

In recent weeks parents across the globe have had a new type of co-worker: their children. The coronavirus crisis has led to the world’s largest ever home-schooling experiment.

At the moment, nearly half of the world’s population is living under lockdown. Millions of people are unable to go to work, and many are working from home for the first time. For some, working online comes with some benefits: there’s more flexibility, and many people are getting to spend more time connecting with loved ones. But for many teachers, who are used to spending their days standing in front of a class, working at home is a foreign concept – and it can be easy to fall into bad habits. 

As a result of the global spread of COVID-19, many international schools have temporarily closed their doors. Governments all over the world are restricting the movements of their citizens in order to curb the spread of the virus, and many teachers have found themselves unexpectedly teaching from home – some for the very first time. 

As thousands of international schools around the world close their doors due to coronavirus, we know many of you are now teaching remotely and we want to support you and your learners as much as we possibly can. To that end, we’ve put together some useful resources and top tips for getting started with distance learning and working with remote learners. Also see these related blog posts: