Solutions · During the lesson
Everything that happens in the lesson
Connection, explaining, engagement, checking understanding and safety. The problems teachers and students feel most happen live, in every lesson. Here’s each one, and how Pencil Spaces solves it.
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Who feels it
Program leaders, Tutors, Students, Parents
Problems mapped
52
Today
47 solved, 4 partly solved, 1 coming soon
Problems during the lesson
Program leaders
- No-shows and join failures at start time
- Audio and video fail mid-lesson
- No live view across every lesson
- Help requests pile up during lessons
- Children alone online with adults, unseen
Tutors
- Echo, noise and frozen video
- Every student on a different device
- Writing math and diagrams with a mouse
- Juggling slides, videos and websites
- Hands-on ideas don’t work on a screen
- Students looking at the wrong spot
- No shared language with the student
- Building rapport through a screen
- Attention drifts, young kids most of all
- Quiet students, and the tutor talks most
- Differentiating for a whole group at once
- Disruptions and meddling with others’ work
- Students who don’t want to be there
- Running out of time, ending late
- Can’t see a student’s work as they do it
- Can’t see who’s stuck in a group
- “I get it” that isn’t true
- Not knowing when to slow down or move on
- No one to reach mid-lesson
- Signs of harm or distress go unnoticed
- Exposed when alone online with a minor
- Inappropriate content or uninvited people
Students
- Bad connection, can’t hear the tutor
- Joining from a noisy, crowded room
- Too many controls for young or new students
- Accommodations missing in the lesson
- Nervous with a new tutor
- Uneasy on camera, with home on view
- Afraid of being wrong in front of peers
- Strangers or bullies in the lesson
- Unsure who sees their work and data
- A lesson pitched at someone else’s level
- Messy boards and abstract explanations
- Learning in a second language
- Too shy to interrupt and ask
- Losing their place on the board
- Hard to write math, code or text on screen
- Shy, or drowned out by others
- Group work online falls flat
- Rushed, held back, or work erased
- Other tabs, phones and games
- Tired, or having a bad day
- Work that feels boring and irrelevant
- No say in goals or activities
- “I’m just bad at this”
- Effort that goes unnoticed
Parents
The features behind these fixes
- Connection Status
- Noise Cancellation
- Safeguarding
- Wellbeing Check-ins (coming soon)
- 100+ Simulations (coming soon)
- Celebrations
- Chat
- Incognito Observation
- Understanding Score (coming soon)
See it in a live Space.
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