eLearning 2020
Who’da thunk it???? As schools have shut down across the world, teachers, students, and parents are being thrust into roles that they’ve never experienced before. It seems that overnight we’ve gone from a classroom and school culture of making eye contact and shaking hands with students to the panic of wondering how we can express this same sentiment miles apart from each other. As a parent, teacher, and one of the instructional leaders at my school, I realize that there is a fine line between adequate contact and too much contact, between productive struggle and students not even trying because the assignment looks too hard, and between teaching standards ( but with the cancellation of testing why even bother ) and reviewing for the next 8 weeks. These invisible lines, that were previously not explored, need to be determined before they are crossed. An action that could erase the months of effort that all stakeholders put in before this elearning deb...