The Introverted Educator

We are off and running, planning for the COVID 2019 instructional world. Our district plan is to allow students to choose back to school, in-person for two days a week, or a virtual option, where teachers stream the class and students attend the Google Meet for those two days. If that is not clear, it looks like this: A Day option: attend school Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday-Friday is out of school instruction. B Day option: attend school Thursday and Friday, Monday-Wednesday is out of school instruction C Day option: virtually attend classes on Monday and Tuesday D Day option: virtually attend classes on Thursday and Friday This plan has its positives and negatives as the state and the district worked hard to find workable solutions to providing education while a global pandemic threatens our atmosphere. The policymakers were faced with difficult decisions with no obvious and clear solutions. I believe that administrators have done their best to provide for the families of our dis...

 The 2019-2020 school year ended abruptly and without ceremony. We said goodbye to our students in early March with uncertainty. Administration told educators within our district to prepare two weeks worth of online learning assignments for students, to be delivered through our learning management system, Google Classroom. Little did we know we would be maintaining this approach for the remainder of the year. Having recently completed significant training in educational technology, I was eager to get started. I was enthusiastic about creating content that my students could digest at their own pace, on their own devices, and in their own homes. I was eager to host meetings and answering questions that were inspired by my carefully crafted and lovingly created content. My students largely were agreeable as well. They participated and completed tasks as best they could. Students emailed with questions when I was not available. We started on a positive track. Once we found that we woul...