Dealing with Learning Loss and closing gaps after a pandemic

Hi my name is Leslie Brenda.

I am doing a research project.

What I have done over dealing with learning loss and

closing gaps after a pandemic.

Um one of the research questions that I covered was

that after the COVID-19 pandemic, what are the best ways

to deal with learning loss and closing gaps and learning

more specifically, I covered three areas Learning loss, attention, span

of motivation and growth.

How is learning loss created during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How much learning loss can be attributed to low attention

span and motivation.

And what is the best way to create growth in

english? One student who suffered from learning lots.

So my position Al Itty statement mm has a lot

to with my family um and where I'm from and

how I was raised um being raised by uh two

parents during my gen X ideals of work life and

balance. Um Kind of help with being brought up by

a mother and a father who also um I felt

like it was important to have work life balance and

neither one of my parents went to, went to college

and they taught me that hard work would pay off

in the end and that I should take advantage of

what was offered so that I could keep what I

have already obtained in my life.

Um, Family was super important.

I think we are one of the most close knit

families that I actually know of believe it or not.

We go to our family for every single thing, Even

though there were only four of us.

And God was first, if we wanted to play sports

and and let my family, my mom and dad pay

for everything, then we had to keep our grades up.

That was what was the deal at her house.

Um, if anything slipped below a certain grade, then all

life would shut down for us.

But as long as we kept our grades up, we

could do just about anything that we, we asked to

do. My father was a very strong leader and these

were the ways that he incorporated hard work and getting

paid off for your hard work for me in my

life. And I think this connects with the topic because

um, with learning lost some of what we saw where

that students just didn't do anything at all.

They didn't have to and nobody checked on them and

they just went away and didn't keep up.

And so they didn't get to keep what they had

strived their whole life to maintain, which was probably good

grades and progression in school.

And now we're faced with, um, closing those gaps that

they created because they chose not to do anything.

So I was curious as to what caused them just

to kind of lose them, their desire to learn.

So that was kind of some of the purpose behind

and why I wanted to research the stop it for

my literature review.

Um I wanted to define learning loss for you.

It's any specific or generally loss of knowledge and skills

or reversal and academic progress most commonly due to extend

gaps or discontinuities in a student's education.

Things like summer break interrupted formal education, returning dropouts, ineffective

teaching in course scheduling, believed or not.

Yeah, I checked out online learning and learned that online

Internet education has been around since the press me in

1991. The University of Phoenix was the first to offer

online education programs through the internet.

Common complaints from lack of understanding for this method of

teaching, to lack of institutional support and fear of the

quality of education.

These have been the common complaints from college faculty regarding

online instruction attention span has been a problem, the negatives

that there were also issues with multitasking attention span boredom

presented from researchers of online learning for college students, we

kind of saw that kind of same thing happened in

high school and then finally we have self determination theory

as the self determination theory is a theory of motivation

that systematically explains the interrelated inter relationships among contextual support,

motivation and then individual psychological wellbeing.

They've been studying this since 2000 and 10 and I

think it's interesting, we all acted like no one knew

anything about online learning.

So this particular theory was interesting, basically psychological growth happens

when one's needs for a sense of control, feelings of

being competent with tasks and activities.

And I think some of that was that students who

are not competent with task and activities and feelings being

included and affiliated and when those three things aren't met,

students can be sectioned off alienated and reactive.

And I think that is some of the reasons why

we saw learning loss.

So was it going to take to close gaps?

Collective efficacy?

A group, shared belief in its conjoint capability to organize

and execute the course of action required To produce given

levels of attainment.

This is among some of the top factors that influence

achievement. They've been setting this since 1997.

And I think the best way if we explain it

to you is like home court advantage, when we all

believe that we're going to win because we're the home

team were the best one, then everybody working together with

that shared mentality is what's going to help students close

gaps. So I used mixed methods um english one AOC

data Um And if assuming past the the their actual

english one class and how they're related.

I use questionnaires.

There were three types of questionnaires that I used.

Um one that was distributed to teachers, one that I

was an anonymous questionnaire that will be distributed to parents.

Um And then finally a questionnaire for students that actually

made it to the learning lost class that I'm actually

teaching. What?

Um so who were the participants that was a five

a High school in the Dallas area partitions to be

freshman English, one seat students from the 2021 school year

and their parents and English teachers of those students.

And then it will be narrowed down to three students

that I will actually teach.

But those students will roll in and out of my

class based upon their successes.

So by looking at all these pieces of information, the

researcher will be able to merge the data to understand

the research problem at a deeper level.

More specifically, a group comparison design that investigates If virtual

learners felt the star English one test and if so

was it due to learning loss or something like motivation

or attention span?

I chose questionnaires because it's easy data to collect and

I chose you see data because that's my specialty area

and I understand how to discern and use the data

to create gains in the classroom.

In the end, I believe there are many people that

think learning loss is not a big deal or that

it's a waste of time.

Honestly, we deal with learning loss every year.

We also deal with students that don't pass their docs

every year.

I think that this um it's important to cover because

there will be repercussions besides learning loss in my opinion

traditionally, and some of those things we've already seen traditionally,

schooling will be begin to look different in the not

so distant future is my opinion.

And I hope that I'm ready for that change.

Um, in the end, if the brain is a muscle

and muscles have memory, I think once we all get

back to the classroom, our muscle memory will kick in

and gaps were close faster than anybody really thinks.

So excited, finished.

Thanks for watching.

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