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Teachers reflect on covid struggle

Title (Dublin Core)

Teachers reflect on covid struggle

Description (Dublin Core)

This article details the reflection of a few Arkansas teachers as we reach two years since the beginning of the pandemic. The teachers highlight the drastic changes not only in safety precautions, but also the adjustments in order to provide meaningful learning in an entirely new landscape. Many of the teachers reported excitement at the prospect of a return to normalcy, however they desire some aspects of the pandemic adjustments to remain in place. Flexible learning, new and creative ideas of conveying topics, and more individualized learning methods have seen an increase in retention of material, which is fundamentally what education is all about. The teachers would also like an end to the stigma surrounding the covid learning adjustments, primarily the notion that education is now "entirely computer based". This notion is quite the contrary, according to educators, rather the new methods not only encourage flexibility and invite individualized learning but also promotes computer skills which will be vital for adulthood.

I think this article is interesting because it highlights the fundamental change covid has made and continues to make on society. In order to promote public health and safety, teachers were forced to adjust and were forced to rework how they educated. This compelling of behavior has rendered some positivity. I think it is critical that children are able to have the safest and most effective education, and while covid seems terribly negative, there is a small glimmer of improvement from the pre-pandemic world.

This article was published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 3, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Cynthia Howell

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Brett Reinert

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story

Source (Dublin Core)

Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--K12
English News coverage
English Online Learning
English Technology

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

teacher
student
newspaper
computer
elementary school
virtual learning
Zoom
change

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Arkansas
teachers
education
students
improvement
school

Collection (Dublin Core)

K-12

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/25/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/03/2022
08/02/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on April 25, 2022 by Brett Reinert (He/Him) using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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