Teaching in a Time of Uncertainty

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Teaching in a Time of Uncertainty

  • March 18, 2020
  • Posted by: Caitlin McCallum
  • Category: Wow Story
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Today we are sharing a story from the front lines of education. Amidst COVID-19 concerns closing schools across the country, our teachers have had a huge and unexpected challenge to overcome – teaching students at their homes instead of in our classrooms. This is especially difficult for the students that LSEM serves.

Our students often have attention issues, anxiety, cannot look too long at a computer screen, or need a physical guiding presence to help them focus. They often require tools that are in our classrooms, but which they don’t have ready access to at home. With the deviation from normalcy, many of their educational mechanisms have gone away. However, this has not stopped us from being there for our students. We are learning new ways to teach and are making the greatest efforts to make sure that our students don’t suffer any setbacks in their education.

Here’s a report from our teacher Carmen Cleveland:

“I was at school all day yesterday and then again today, getting tech help, sending messages and videos to students, and putting together these Reading Packets for all my K-2nd graders. I am pretty overwhelmed, as I think all of us are feeling.

I will need to figure out the Google classroom piece tomorrow to interact with all my middle school students. We are sending videos each day, and assigning work every other day, utilizing the waiver school days in a staggered pattern. Our principal has asked us to connect/send videos to students every day, so I am quickly getting more comfortable with making videos! Yikes!”

This is an uncomfortable process for everyone involved. Students, parents, teachers, administrators, and educators are all struggling to make the best of this situation. Now is the time to come together and work together and support each other in Christian love.

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” — John 14:27