All tagged Distance Learning
COVID-19 has upended strategies teachers rely on to connect with kids and teach their subjects. In the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District, teachers have had to switch gears several times, going all-virtual last spring, then preparing over the summer for in-person school, only to learn that school would stay virtual after all. Then, in October, most teachers went back to school buildings, teaching cohorts of students in a hybrid of in-person and virtual instruction.
When we started doing virtual learning in the spring, it felt like a dream to not have to go to school. Time went on though, and I began to miss events and activities. Now, with the school year starting up, what was once a dream of not having school for a couple weeks has turned into a nightmare of never-ending disappointments.
When we started doing virtual learning in the spring, it felt like a dream to not have to go to school. Time went on though, and I began to miss events and activities. Now, with the school year starting up, what was once a dream of not having school for a couple weeks has turned into a nightmare of never-ending disappointments.
After months of meetings, consultations with experts, and feedback gathered from questionnaires sent to families, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District decided all students would attend school virtually through at least the end of September. Now that October has arrived, some students will soon be returning to school buildings two days a week. What is all this like for the kids? What is their day-to-day experience of a school year unlike any other? We asked students in elementary, middle, and high school to let us know. We’ll be publishing their answers throughout the year. Here are the first three.
If my generation learns to transform our self-consciousness into self-awareness, I hope it’s a lesson we can carry out of the Zoom environment and into the real world — when we finally get back there.
