![]() True, but in some ways we miss the way innovators create these conventions to handle tricky problems, so let’s rewind to celebrate Jonathan’s work. Many in the field, myself included, embrace the mantra of the best interface is one users don’t notice. Lately, ideas like hamburger menu or swipe left seem to spur controversy while new, but soon they just become conventional. Why revisit in 2022? The easy answer is that very few real interaction innovations occur, manily because they must be recognized, shared (open source libraries), adopted, then become ubiquitious and then are no longer noteworthy. In 2006, a developer named Jonathan del Strother created an application called “Cover Flow” I want to celebrate. “This increased workload for teachers and TAs who had to find ways of managing children in school and providing lesson content for those at home and our findings suggest this may have led to increased anxiety as TAs juggled many different tasks.The original design of cover flow, later redsigned by Apple There were also far greater numbers of pupils in schools in England than during previous lockdowns, after the government extended the list of parents who qualified as critical or key workers. “They really have gone above and beyond,” said Jill Roseblade, executive headteacher of Alver Valley nursery, infant and junior schools in Gosport, Hampshire.Īnother of the report’s authors, Prof Gemma Moss said the work required to keep schools functioning had intensified during the winter 2021 lockdown as a result of a new legal requirement to supply remote education to all children learning at home. ![]() Nearly one in four TAs said they had taken on new responsibilities without any additional training and 44% said they had picked up new digital skills during the pandemic. Some respondents described themselves as working ‘on the frontline’ and shouldering much of the responsibility for keeping schools open.” “Our report highlights that in many ways teaching assistants have been the ‘unsung heroes’ of the pandemic and it is hard to see how schools could have managed without them. ![]() ![]() “TAs have been absolutely key in allowing schools to keep functioning during the pandemic,” said Dr Rob Webster, one of the authors of the report which was funded by Unison. As well as managing larger groups on school premises, the UCL survey said TAs were vital in helping children to carry on learning at home, providing targeted support and picking up on the needs of individual children. TAs are among the lowest paid workers in the UK, with a median income of less than £14,000. As one TA put it: “We have put our lives at risk more than any school staff during the pandemic.” Those working in early years and special schools, who were in close contact with children without personal protective equipment, felt particularly vulnerable. The report, published this week, is based on analysis of data from more than 9,000 teaching and classroom assistants in schools across the UK and shows for the first time the pivotal role they played in keeping schools open and children learning amid the disruption caused by Covid.Īlmost half (49%) covered staff absences, enabling schools to stay open to vulnerable and key worker children, leading some to observe that the “lowest-paid TAs are in school doing the dangerous face-to-face work”.
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