The current COVID-19 pandemic makes each of us to be teachers. Parents who are not teachers by profession are teachers in which they have to monitor their children learning at home. Monitoring in this case also includes the aspects of providing physical face to face scaffolding to their children, reinforcing behaviour and evaluating their children performance (even though it can be informal, yet it is important to ensure their children are not left behind).
Learning from home can be considered as informal learning (with no school facilities such as labs and teachers physically available). More often than not, parents are caught in the situation where they are unprepared to be teachers. On one side, they replace teachers in a physical sense. Teachers on the other side, still teach the best they could plus giving virtual support that they can provide to students. Yet, we cannot deny that distance learning through virtual mode is not something that can easily be done. Yet, teachers are doing their best to ensure their students will still be able to learn what they suppose to learn in the best condition they could.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach in this case.
This webinar gave me an opportunity to learn about teaching and learning practice and experience from my colleagues from Indonesia and Thailand in terms of how they conduct their teaching (what are their challenges) during this trying time. But from Malaysia, Assoc Prof Jamaluddin Harun, he shared about UTM practice on online learning.