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With online classes running seamlessly during lockdown restrictions, can school principals afford to sit back and relax? Are there any felt or expressed concerns regarding the effectiveness of online classes? How will the school heads address the challenges of the quality and effectiveness of online learning? Do they need to create new protocols of online curriculum transaction and monitor teachers’ performances?
Covid-19 struck us without a warning and left head of all educational institutions scrambling to respond to its exigencies. It has also created a need to creatively deal with such unforeseen and once-in-a-century catastrophic events that are being predicted as the ‘new normal’. School principals deserve nothing less than a pat on their backs for a swift response to the pandemic amid the lockdown restrictions. Their alacrity has resulted in a spate of online classes for learners of every level ranging from scholastic subjects, co-scholastic areas such as fine and performing arts to mental wellness and physical fitness.
However, it would be overly simplistic to sit back and relax assuming the job to be well done. There are serious challenges to quality and effectiveness in online learning which largely remain unaddressed due to overflowing self-congratulatory and feel-good sentiments. Will the school leaders be willing to think out of their box to recognise, understand, and address these critical issues?