With just 3 weeks left in the semester,
- I am so ready for this hybrid teaching situation to be over.
- I am so ready to NOT be "chained" to my laptop screen in order to teach both in-person and digital students simultaneously.
- I am so ready to be mobile again in order to interact with students, instead of being 100% stationary behind my desk.
- I am so ready to be "teaching to the eyes" again, because quite honestly in this hybrid situation, I have NO clue what students (especially Zoom students) are understanding and not understanding.
- I am so ready to tell a story to students in the target language, to have them act it out, to ask them questions, and to do PQA's AND to move around when I do all of that.
- I am so ready to NOT have to rely completely 100% on digital assignments and activities in order to accommodate both in-person and digital assignments at the same time.
- I am so ready to finally get to know my students personally and to learn of their interests and strengths and for them to get to know me.
- I am so ready to do face-to-face interactive activities with students again which Covid, Zoom, and hybrid-teaching have made impossible.
- I am so ready for my classroom to be arranged like it was pre-Covid and not be spaced out in the way which it is now where I feel like students are so distant from me.
- I am so ready to not be teaching wearing a mask which I feel so impedes my level of communication and comprehensibility.
I also understand that this time will eventually come. I just need to be patient.
Yes, yes, yes! The enrollment from 8th grade Latin into the high school DE Latin has dropped dramatically for next year (when it's optional to take Latin) and I feel like the differences this year strongly affected the connection that usually would have been a major factor that would have carried kids through to a continued study of Latin. I understand why it had to be the way it was, but I'm hopeful that next year will be able to happen in a way that will build that bridge again.
ReplyDeleteYep, our enrollment for Latin went down too for next year - I think it is just a unfortunate product of the situation. It just is what it is.
DeleteI'm ready!
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