Even in normal times, teaching is no walk in the park. Between lesson plans, classroom time, communicating with parents and caregivers, and keeping up with school and district politics, the concept of self-care can easily fall by the wayside. During the pandemic, there’s even more pressure. Pressure to teach both virtually ...
Before the pandemic, if you’d have asked most teachers which skills they wanted to develop more, every one of them would have included technology. It wouldn’t have mattered how proficient those teachers already were; the reality is that technology develops in leaps and bounds while we’re busy taking baby steps. ...
Their homes have changed. Their parents are worried. Their world has changed. They can’t play with their friends as easily as they used to. People are wearing masks, and some familiar places are now off-limits. Their schools have changed. After a spring that was cut short and a longer-than-usual summer break, schools ...
Over the summer, in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic and all the changes it mandated, another major societal upheaval began: the Black Lives Matter protests across the nation. They began after the May 25 death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis, Minn., after a police officer ...
It’s August now – the month when teachers traditionally decorate their bulletin boards, prepare their lesson plans, and get ready to welcome a new group of students to their classroom. At least that’s what happens in a normal year. This year, of course, belongs to COVID-19. It has changed everything about life ...
If you are a teacher who has struggled with teaching your students to write, you’re not alone. The research studies and reports have become relentless over the past couple of decades: Students are having more and more trouble learning to write well. It’s not one particular age – elementary, secondary, and ...