Although I wouldn’t wish living through a pandemic on my worst enemy and I’m sure we’d all love to get back to normal, there are major lessons I believe we all can learn from this experience within the world of education. I could list quite a few and make separate episodes on each of them - hey, note to self, maybe I will - but one of those lessons is that our time with students, meaning a teacher’s time with his or her students IN THEIR PRESENCE is not only imperative, in many cases it’s an issue of equity.
The fluctuating schedules, whether they are all virtual or some variation of hybrid, we teachers feel the urgency of wanting to see our students more - wanting more time to master those standards, right?!?
And you may even be drowning right now in the schedule you’re living, unable to keep up with all things. Whether you are fully remote, some form of hybrid, or even back to face-to-face 5 days a week “normal” some day, I want you to try out this one thing in making it all a bit more manageable not only for you, but for your students… and that is to declare the student learning process. Let me explain.
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