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Teachers are not appreciated. Perhaps that’s a fact that most of us can now agree with, especially since the pandemic has forced many schools to close and students to log into classes from home.
Not many parents are more aware of what is involved in raising our children. After all, many of us have had to help our kids turn in their homework, teach us new apps like Google Classroom and Zoom, and grapple with technology issues.
It is certainly not easy being a parent, teacher or student when distance learning students. This situation is difficult, unusual and new. We all need to give each other some grace.
The only thing that hasn’t changed is how deserving some parents are. You may think that parents are more understanding of the difficult situation teachers and educators are in right now, but some parents seem to think that schools should do the impossible, such as wake their children up and personally come to their homes to make sure you participate in online classes.
A teacher who goes to DontTakeMySparkle on Imgur shared several screenshots of texts she received from an angry and unreasonable mother. According to the mother’s texts, her daughter is a failure and does not understand why. Even after clearing up from her teacher, the mother seems to believe that the teacher is to blame for her daughter not logging into the classroom for the entire school year.
The global pandemic has changed the ways we live, work, and spend our leisure time beyond recognition. Primary and high schools, as well as universities, are no exception, and many institutions were forced to step up and get creative in developing alternative teaching solutions.
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A recent study on distance learning from Bellwether Education Partners and Teach For America showed that there’s no single and right way to “perform distance teaching, but the remote learning processes of many districts and charters are similar to in-class instruction.”
The study also showed that there has been more effort from teaching staff to find a connection with families and students, and there’s been much more of a focus on health and safety compared to spring.
However, for many teachers, getting online and navigating distance learning has become a major challenge. For example, Erin Pinsky of Joel Barlow High School in Reading, Connecticut, told the New York Times that going online was difficult because “not all students wanted to watch their videos in face-to-face classes.”
As a result, the teacher explained, “It reduced lively discussions and made it difficult for me as a teacher to read facial expressions and body language, giving me feedback on how students are progressing with lesson objectives outside of their academic work.”
But with the second wave of coronavirus far from over, teachers may have no choice but to adapt to the rapidly changing classroom environment.
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