### Code of Conduct for Staff for Online/Distanced Teaching and Learning

There maybe occasions where some Teaching and Learning may need to be delivered online. This is a guide for staff to provide online interactions, whilst still maintaining high standards in learning, and keeping eSafety to a premium. Live streaming can be a valuable way to connect with the wider community, but staff must be aware of students’ online safety.

### In England, the Department for Education (DfE) has no expectation that teachers should livestream or pre-record lessons.

At Heathlands:

- • All sessions should follow the Schemes of Work agreed by the Head of Department and be in line with what would be normally taught in a classroom where possible.
- • Instructions should be explicit, limiting any doubt by the student. Instructions can be built into a presentation or as a separate document.
- • All work should be uploaded onto the Seesaw and a separate school email should be sent to Students alerting them to the upload.
- • All communication about work should be via school email.
- • Staff should be mindful of the length of time tasks may take and plan accordingly. This main mean that something which would normally take one lesson in normal circumstances may take two.
- • Staff should plan for a consolidation lesson at least once per fortnightly to embed and consolidate the learning completed at home.
- • If staff are setting work which requires an element of on-line research, safeguarding advice should be issued to students.
- • All links or clips should be quality assured before posting in a learning resources.
- • Staff must take the usual care when producing learning materials, taking into account the difficulties individual children may have if a topic is personally difficult for them or may trigger a response which would need one to one support from a member of staff. It is important to note that children may be more vulnerable at this time due to the direct impact of Covid-19 on themselves and their families.

Delivering a session via Teams:

Staff may deliver a session via Teams if they so wish. This is an online platform that allows teachers to either simply upload work to the platform and respond in writing to students during or after the lesson via a specific Team; or pre-record content, to record over PowerPoint presentations, as well as the capacity to ‘Live Stream’. Consent from parents or carers for their child to participate must be gained. It is also important to gather the necessary information to keep children safe during the activity.

When setting up your Teams, it is the responsibility of the member of staff to ensure the correct security settings are in place, with Staff having clear ownership of the Team, not the students. Staff should be fully aware of the functionality of the system and how to use it before embarking on activities. Staff also have the option to limit the activities students can do; e.g. to limit the chat function, limit the use of emoji type symbols or stickers. Staff should clearly articulate to students the rules of the Team and that they can remove students from a Team immediately should they break any of the ‘rules’.