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Student Personalities on Zoom

Teaching virtually has been an “eye-opening” experience. I think I am finally getting acclimated to the various types of student personalities I have come across in my time teaching via Zoom. Here are just a few of the common ones I see in my daily teaching. I am sure you have had many of these in your online classes, as well as quite a few you could add to the list. Have a good one to share?…

It’s undeniable, the effects of virtual teaching and learning are taking more than a toll on our social lives- it’s destroying our bodies! I used to come home from a day of teaching with sore feet from standing all day. Now a day of virtual teaching leaves me with strained eyes and a migraine from too much screen time. My posture is evolving to a slumped position, more suited for bending over a…

Student Participation before vs during the pandemic

Sorry haven’t put up a comic in a while, this virtual and hybrid teaching is way more work than I ever imagined. Taking a lesson and reformatting it so that it can be equally effective for students learning from home as well as those coming into the classroom is very challenging to say the least! This has been a challenging year for all: students, parents, teachers, administrators, etc. We are…

Coming Back to School During COVID

As the start of the school year approaches, the one question on everyone’s mind is whether it will be safe for students and staff to return to a physical classroom setting or not. Every district is scrambling to come up with a plan that will get students back into schools, while ensuring it can be done in a safe way that will not expose them to the risk of contracting COVID 19. However, this has…

Kids rather be in school

As an educator, if I got a nickel for every time a student told me they hated school and wanted to be home, I’d be a rich man; and that’s just one day! However, since COVID-19 forced schools across the land to shut their doors, sending students home to do their school work, the tide has now turned! Now I don’t go a day without hearing a student in one of my online classes telling me how much they…

As schools are shut down due to the Coronavirus and students are sent home to learn, people are quickly discovering just have difficult and stressful a job of a teacher is (and that’s with their own kids as students!).