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Studying alone at home instead of in the classroom with classmates – Before summer break, this was the reality for students. Not everyone coped with it equally well, as a large-scale survey conducted by the canton of Lucerne shows. According to the canton, this is the only one in Switzerland.
Learn better? Rather not
School performance evaluations are interesting, for example. Only about 15 percent of students found that the lessons at home were better than normal lessons. Teachers judge it even more critically: They estimate that only 4 percent of their students have improved.
On the other side of the scale are those who found that their performance had deteriorated. There are more than 20 percent in the younger age groups, and even more than 40 percent among Kantian students.
Lucerne’s education director, Marcel Schwerzmann, doesn’t have to worry that some of them have trouble with distance learning: “Even in face-to-face classes, there are certain students who can’t keep up.”
In general, draw a positive balance: “It worked very well.” It has been shown that most schools are technically well equipped and that students are able to work independently, “the youngest with the support of their parents, of course”.
And in fact: overall, nearly 80 percent of surveyed schoolchildren, teachers, and parents said they were satisfied with distance education. But one thing is also clear: school is not just a place of learning. Because to the question of what caused more problems, an answer clearly balances above: the lack of social contacts. About two-thirds of the students complained about this.
What do you like? More free time!
And what is better to teach at home than in the classroom? What could you benefit from during the lockdown time? Here there are particularly big differences: teachers emphasize that they have learned to use digital tools better; the students, on the other hand, were particularly satisfied with the flexibility in terms of time and … more free time.
Starting signal for a digital school future?
For Lucerne education director Schwerzmann, one thing is clear: the school should benefit from the new experience and rely more on digital content in the future. On the part of the teaching staff, however, there are major concerns: “We find it difficult to understand that a model is going to be introduced that, demonstrably, has left a considerable portion of the students seriously handicapped,” says Markus Elsener, President of the Lucerne Association of School Teachers.
Education director Marcel Schwerzmann was appeased: “This is not about teachers having to distance learning in the future, but about promoting digital ways of teaching.” In his opinion, this would not only benefit the students, but also the teachers. “In the end, it shouldn’t bring you more effort, but relief.”
