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CURRICULUM

Curriculum Remote Learning

Loreto Learn@Home

Together we Built the Plane While we were Flying it!

In December 2019, a group of six P-12 Academic Staff attended a two-day introductory course on a program called Microsoft Teams. This group quickly recognised the power of the tool and committed to piloting the product in the faculties of STEM and Humanities for Term 1, 2020 as a tool for teacher collaboration and resource sharing. However, by mid-March and with the ever-increasing developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was becoming more apparent that school closures could be a real possibility. When the School took the prudent decision to cancel Parent Teacher Student Conferences on 16 March, we swiftly utilised the afternoon to train all VCE Academic Staff in the use of

Microsoft Teams. With the invaluable support of our wonderful IT team and Digital Learning Leaders, we then undertook the remarkable process of training over 150 Academic Staff in the school to use this new technology in record time. Whilst the learning curve was very steep, and our ICT skills increased exponentially, we did not miss a beat! On the very 16


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