M&R: Supporting learners, teachers and parents

Writer: Hedda Mittner.

It’s been a rough few months for Rhoda and Murison Kotzé of the M&R Math and Reading Centre in Hermanus. Not only did they have to move all their operations online within a week when the hard lockdown was announced back in March, but Rhoda was also very pregnant at the time and gave birth to a bonny boy, John-Murison, on 2 June.

“Many of our teachers are retired and not as tech-savvy as the youngsters; they had to find out for the first time how Zoom works!” laughs Rhoda. “Then there was the problem that some of our learners didn’t have internet access and their lessons had to be conducted on the phone.”

Rhoda says adapting to online learning was very overwhelming for the learners, too. “Even with the school teachers trying to keep their pupils on track by sending them work to do from home, they weren’t always available to explain it to them if they were having problems.

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