What a Year

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 12:30 a.m.

I was recently reading the November/December 2020 issue of \u201cScience and Children\u201d a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.\xa0\xa0In this issue, I read the \u201cEditor\u2019s Note\u201d column written by Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn.\xa0\xa0Her article was entitled \u201cWhat a Year.\u201d

As we move toward the early winter of 2020 we look back at schools following a patchwork of face-to-face, hybrid, and virtual models of instruction.\xa0\xa0All teachers, at whatever grade-level, have been returned to their \u201crookie year\u201d of teaching as they struggle to find ways to meet the needs of learners in their physical classrooms and on screens.