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Nope. It's far more difficult to prepare and monitor and correct distance learning. I miss watching them work out the math problem and seeing their work, assisting where necessary in the moment. I miss being there when they have the "Ah ha! I GET IT!" revelation. Mostly, I miss that personal connection with students, sharing the jokes, asking how their day is going, the intangible stuff.
I can't wait to be back in the classroom in person with my students in person. Even the chatty ones.
How in the world are elementary school teachers going to follow CDC guideline of keeping students apart for a minimum of 6 feet? How are teachers going to keep students from pulling their face masks off? How can teachers be understood wearing face masks and possibly shields? What happens when teachers and students start dying? What happens when school systems are sued? Good idea, but I'm afraid can't be implemented.
Apparently, there are online schools that are the equivalent of public schools, just not limited by geography. They are free like public schools are. If they provide a better quality of education remotely, and especially if the local public school is using the same technology, so there is no advantage to "staying local" then people would not be bound to their local public school and could choose to go to a public school -- the online school, designed to be based in distance learning from the ground up and staffed with people trained to do this would have a serious advantage.
How in the world are elementary school teachers going to follow CDC guideline of keeping students apart for a minimum of 6 feet? How are teachers going to keep students from pulling their face masks off? How can teachers be understood wearing face masks and possibly shields? What happens when teachers and students start dying? What happens when school systems are sued? Good idea, but I'm afraid can't be implemented.
Are you meaning that schools will be closed until the virus is eliminated one way or another?
That would be very hard on many kids and families.
Our schools are all resuming in our state, full-time, on Monday. No masks, no social distancing at school between kids. The number of cases here is now very low but it is not completely eliminated. There are modifications coming in; no assemblies and no contact sports. No parents allowed into schools. Kids and teachers should stay home if sick.
Granted it would be hard, but the US has many more cases than Australia. Who wants to be responsible for the death of someone's child? The American east coast and parts of the midwest consist of densely packed cities that rely on public transportation.
Even when Zooming from my home office with the door closed, I’m distracted by my family’s proximity (not to mention barking dogs and ringing phones). Online, I’m also a prisoner of my computer screen and sometimes unreliable Wi-Fi. I can’t move around the room the way I normally do, I can’t make my usual asides, and I can’t easily blend into the classroom milieu when a discussion among students takes off.
It’s simply harder to engage the class. So much subtle communication occurs in the physical classroom. I can see the student who looks like she has something to say and prod her to speak up, or I can see the student who’s clearly irked by someone else’s comment and ask if he wants to respond.
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