In this video Rowan Roberts meets with Tim Goundry, secondary English teacher and head of year 12 at NIST International School in Bangkok, to discuss the phenomenon of ‘hybrid’ teaching. This term describes a situation where lessons are delivered simultaneously in person and online. It’s an approach that many schools are considering in light of the high numbers of pupils who are isolating but aren’t unwell within school communities at the moment, and Tim draws on his own experiences to explain how he found it and what might make it achievable in a European context.
00:23 Introduction
01:23 Tim describes the journey that Bangkok’s NIST has made in its response to the pandemic and its approaches to teaching.
03:43 Tim explains the considerations he thinks are necessary for any school to take into account before introducing a hybrid approach to pandemic teaching and learning.
08:06 Tim suggests some alternatives to simultaneous hybrid teaching that might represent more workable solutions for schools looking for ways to include absent pupils.