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A workplace is the best place to work: Like so many others, my workplace and my home became the same for the first time. I didn’t anticipate the role confusion that came with that. Sometimes I was in spouse / parent mode while simultaneously answering questions about an assignment. During online learning, if students had to wait until I could be their sole teacher again, they would have been waiting.
Students like to work on computers, and aspects of this way of working should be maintained: Many students who would never have completed a paper assignment were among the first to submit the same assignment via an online tool or questionnaire. Those students are sending us a clear message: in 2020 we must do more to accommodate the tech student.
Students must know the concept of transferable abilities: They may have perfected selfies, but they have a long way to go when it comes to taking a photo of written work. Their mastery of filters means that they themselves can look so perfect that they are unrecognizable (often literally) and yet the task comes sideways or slanted, and is almost certainly not fully readable.
Some students have emerged from the shadows: As the more socially oriented struggled online, a whole new regiment of dominant students appeared who were prepared to write contributions in the chat box that they would never, ever have dared to say out loud in class. Similarly, the shy students engaged with the camera off in a whole new way and, for the first time, they were the ones who thrived. I hope we don’t lose all of that now that we are back in the classroom.
At school, even though we all wear masks, I know exactly who is there, even if not everyone is really listening!
What takes a teacher hours to prepare takes minutes for a student to submit: There is no teacher in the country who has been actively engaged in e-learning to tell you otherwise. We research, verify, correct, and then review the work from a student’s perspective to anticipate how it will read to them. And the students? Well, they have many years of fast clicking behind them, so that’s what they do. But so far your clicks have been for trivial matters, and even if it’s academic assessment now, your old fast-clicking habits are tough. Little by little, students are learning to slow down, due to an unusually poor series of results directly related to not figuring out what was required before starting.
The importance of knowing my audience: All I knew for sure in spring was that a person had connected. Online classes at our school used to be cameraless. When they were in front of their devices for a “live” online class with their microphones and cameras turned off, it could have been anyone, or they could have been with anyone, or indeed any number of people. There was a different mistrust in me about delivery and jokes, to which I am prone to both. In the online classroom I didn’t feel so comfortable either. At school, even though we all wear masks, I know exactly who is there, even if they are not all listening!
Online teaching is an isolated existence and brought positive and negative aspects: One big positive is that school politics and dramas can be out of sight and out of mind. During that period I did my job, stayed out of trouble, and kept only the positive side of relationships with adults at school: courteous professional commitment to those who are merely colleagues and frequent and uplifting contact with those who are, first of all, my friends.
They clearly associate the need to adhere to Covid regulations with teacher authority rather than public health and safety.
The same thing happened with the students: the cream rose to the top. What was not delivered was simply not delivered. He always wrote a follow-up and reminder message, which usually generated a cheerful response promising the job soon. Sometimes it came and sometimes it didn’t, but there was no aggro, no tension, and much less emotional energy wasted in vain. Without a doubt, the students felt exactly the same.
For students, wearing a mask is easy; social distancing is difficult: Now that we are back in the real world, the learning continues – mask fulfillment among students in classrooms is phenomenal. Once “free, that is, outside the learning environment, their capacity for social distancing is worryingly low. They clearly associate the need to adhere to Covid regulations with teacher authority rather than public health and safety.
We have to keep an eye on those who wear glasses: Students being reluctant to wear their glasses to school has always been a concern, but now it’s a problem on a whole new level. Users should be aware and remind them not to compromise the health of their eyes because of how difficult it is to handle the glasses and mask. Stairs are dangerous in whole new ways because of the masks, which need to be pointed out to young people running everywhere, often carrying heavy bags!
Students may care more than we think: Am I glad to be back? Of course, it’s me. Just yesterday I checked in as my fifth year to see how things were going with all the changes. When I listened and noticed some ways they felt that things could be made a little easier, two students started talking at the same time. It turned out that they both just wanted to see if there was anything they, as a class, could do to make things easier for me. What is it that I don’t love about being back?
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