How teaching online during COVID-19 lockdown made me think deeply about how physical presence matters

Penny Vlies

By Penny Vlies
Community contribution / July 13, 2020

There's a general feeling among teachers of pride and relief that we got through the recent few months when we were teaching online.

And at the moment, all of us are feeling for our school teacher colleagues in Melbourne who face returning to ...

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By Penny Vlies

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Penny Vlies is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney studying the intersection of curriculum policy, general capabilities and teaching. Her work with schools involves designing learning that is built by and for teachers to embed critical and creative thinking into classroom practice. She is an Academic Tutor with the University working with students in the Service Learning in Indigenous Communities course. Penny is an award winning secondary school teacher who sees education ‘to be, not to have’. She can be contacted for any questions or further discussion at penny.vlies@syd.edu.au. Penny is on Twitter @pvlies.

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