Teaching in the Pandemic Period
How has teaching changed. I used to get 15,000 steps about 10,000 of them within a 25 by 20 sized room. I used to stop drinking coffee at 8:30 because I just forgot or didn't have time. I can go to the bathroom at any time and that is awesome. I don't plan a daily lesson. So much of my time was spent planning and reflecting on my daily lesson. Then grading exit slips and homework. And of course about 5 hours a day was actually required to be in the classroom. Way too often those 10 or 15 minutes quick lessons dragged out to 45 50 minutes because: Someone wasn't listening so I had to repeat. Someone was late. Someone was goofing off. Someone had a question. I was too long winded. We went down a rabbit hole. The instructions were unclear. Someone felt turn and talk time meant a discussion of birthday plans. Today I am doing my best to shrink those 15 minutes lessons into a 5 minute video. Instead of spending all my time corralling restless middle schoolers I can stalk GoGuard