Covid-19 lockdown and impact on student development

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April 13, 2022, 5:00 PM.

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Online learning during lockdown

covid-19 epidemic

How does it affect students and schools?

This issue was brought up and discussed again.

After revealing the results of a study in the UK, it was found that it affected the development of students in many areas.

The office for Standards in Education Children's Services and Skill

(

Ofsted

) released a study report.

from 280 educational institutions across the UK.

Among different age groups, it was found that most of the children who studied online

During the lockdown announcement to prevent the spread of COVID-19

have problems with both physical and emotional development

Problems faced by students:

The

Ofsted

report found that reduced social interactions from lockdowns

resulted in the majority of early-year children improving physically, such as crawling, walking, writing, speaking and expressive responses. The basic expression slows down.

with some being obese

Some also lack basic self-care skills, such as going to the bathroom on their own.

make various educational institutions

Spend time with this group of children with a longer focus on exercise.

including trying to find a way for the children

Create as many interactions with each other as possible.

while the mental health impact of online learning

In the majority of secondary school children, it was found that they lacked emotional flexibility.

Anxiety in group activities

and the important thing is

lack of confidence in studying

Until they choose to study subjects in science, biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics less and more and turn to language courses more.

As a result, many schools are trying to optimize the learning for these students who lack confidence.

By trying to manage the assessment of learning more.

to find a way to fill in the gaps that the students are missing

While some institutions even organize regular assessments of their studies.

in order to be able to identify what each student remembers

and allow more time to review what remains to be learned from online learning.

Problems that arise with educational institutions:

What

Ofsted

found, however, is that the effect of lockdowns leading to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many schools failing to retain quality workforce.

As a result, there are not enough personnel at the practitioner level who have teaching skills.

which this issue

may affect the quality of teaching in the future

And although many educational institutions have tried to solve this problem.

with more skill-enhancing training for the rest of the staff

to solve the problem of shortage of personnel

but doing so

Instead, it puts pressure on personnel who have to bear the increased burden.

Many school administrators in the UK also admitted to

Ofsted

that there were concerns about long-term sustainability.

Because the number of students circulating in each school is not stable.

from the problem of the spread of COVID-19

that is still ongoing.

Special news team, Thairath Online reports.

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