With no return to school in sight because of COVID-19, the burden of education is falling on some B.C. parents. Now, experts from the University of British Columbia Okanagan are offering some guidelines to help support learning at home.
Here are some tips from UBCO’s school of education that will hopefully help you and your child to adapt to this new way of learning. “Listen for wonderings,” said Margaret Macintyre Latta, director of the Okanagan School of Education at UBCO. “When learning comes from the child’s own question, then learning does not feel forced and can find direction on its own,” said Latta.
The director says she encourages parents and children to seek resources together to foster ways to learn more and find new questions. “