This obviously will take time to fully set up, but once in place it shouldn’t take too much effort to maintain it. Many teachers will already have digitised a lot of their classes over the last year, so it shouldn’t be a case of starting from scratch anyway.
Ofsted would also be able to access this digitised content to assess quality as part of desk top reviews.
The digitised content should include videos of teachers presenting the lesson, clips of other supporting content, links, curriculum text, exercises and answers (protected by password), and mock exam questions associated with each topic where relevant for certain year groups. Exam boards should work with schools to create these.
If there is a future pandemic or a localised situation, such as natural disaster, flooding, snow disruption, terrorist attack etc, that prevents children attending school for a period of time, the teachers would then be able to just continue teaching remotely immediately.
It would also provide students with a perfect resource for exam study or for catching up on missed lessons as a result of illness.
In terms of intellectual property rights, the content created should be considered as owned by the institution wherever a teacher has created the content, or by the exam board wherever materials have been produced by AQA, OCR, etc.
Teachers / boards should be rewarded at a national level wherever they are judged to have produced outstanding content. These prizes should be substantial to encourage as many teachers as possible to really focus on producing quality content.
A means of sharing this content between schools should also be considered to ensure the best teaching is shared across the country to improve the quality of education children are receiving
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