An opinion piece by the Australian Government’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Nick Coatsworth. One word has become a common theme in all the discussions around face-to-face teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: confusion.
As a country, we are largely heading in the same direction in relation to how best to school our children while we battle coronavirus.
However different states and territories are moving at different pace and this has led to a sense of confusion. To address this confusion which is so frustrating for parents, teachers and students, we need to go back to the evidence, and then we need to go beyond that, and build our community’s trust in our schooling recommendations.