![]() ![]() Picture dropping off your 4, 5, or soon-to-be-6 year old in some prearranged, staggered schedule at the front door because you won’t be allowed in, due to restrictions to the school building’s capacity and social distancing guidelines. I keep imagining the first day of school for my kindergarten students. But there is so much about the learning experiences your child finds joy, delight, and comfort in that will be drastically different, because we are not only keeping your children safe we are keeping ourselves safe. We want to be back in school as much as all of you. I worry especially about how this pandemic is affecting the social-emotional development of young children who, for the most part, haven’t been able to imagine, take turns, or collaborate with their friends face-to-face for months. #protectteachers #distancelearning #stayathome #pandemic #covid19 #coronavirusĪ post shared by sully_willis on at 11:13am PDTĪnd yes, as someone who is entering her 14th year as an early elementary school teacher, I agree wholeheartedly with that statement. We are putting teachers in an impossible situation. ![]() The CDC’s report, “ The Importance of Reopening America’s Schools this Fall,” asserts that, “Aside from a child’s home, no other setting has more influence on a child’s health and well-being than their school.” Now, as confirmed COVID-19 cases continue to soar throughout our country, the powers that be have called for children to return to school in-person. By staying apart, we made the commitment to keep the virus from spreading to one another. As difficult as remote learning was for both teachers, students, and families, we were all working toward a common goal: keeping each other safe at home. Many teachers also perform the impossible balancing act of collaborating in their own children’s distance learning and caring for family members, all the while taking the necessary precautions and safety measures to stay alive and well. The curtain was pulled back for caregivers to observe the many roles we as teachers embody over the course of a school day, from storytellers and musicians to mathematicians and counselors.Įducators have endured the challenges of planning, teaching and assessing through remote learning, when we had only a few days to transform and innovate our physical classrooms to virtual ones. And, for a brief moment, it seemed that people throughout the nation finally realized and understood the invaluable work of teachers as they maneuvered Zoom meetings and Google classroom streams alongside their child. ![]()
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