Teaching in this new normality: A great challenge

Thinking to avoid going to school for some days without problems was a dream that seems to be just that, a dream. For teachers and students wasn't a bad idea to have a little "break" of our stressful student/teacher life, so when we where said to stop going to school for a few days, we just thought that for a few days we could do what we had to in the comfort of our home. 5 months later we still in the comfort of our home and it stopped being comfortable. 

The necessity of continuing with education during the pandemic is something we cannot ignore. The teachers have to adapt their programs, the schools have to adapt their teachers, and the students have to adapt too, but is not that easy for everyone. Not all the students have the equipment in their context to keep their education from home, and the teachers have to take into consideration all those different contexts to adapt their classes, which adds difficulty to something that is already difficult such as adapting a physical education program to online. 

Another problem for teachers is that they can do magic. According to Bryan Smith, a Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville's teacher said to St.Louis public radio, that it is hard to ensure the students are learning the skills properly. You as the teacher can make your best to provide your students with all the input and online materials, but in the end, is their responsibilities to get all of that and use it to build their knowledge, as it is significantly more difficult for the teacher to be physically there to mediate the students and the sharing of knowledge, as well as to provide them with more personalized attention.

It seems this "new normality" is going to stay with us for a long time, so teachers will have to keep figuring out how to work through the screen and keep being efficient with their students to give them all that desired knowledge.

References:

Schmid, E. (April 23, 2020). Teaching Online During A Pandemic Is Hard, And It’s Harder For These Kinds Of Classes. Retrieved from:  https://news.stlpublicradio.org/education/2020-04-23/teaching-online-during-a-pandemic-is-hard-and-its-harder-for-these-kinds-of-classes

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