My First Year Teaching

What we're seeing with "distance learning" is that it works for some students, but others are experiencing a disaster. I think we can say that in general the students struggling with the distance learning as it is presented have some issues with learning-- disabilities. Other students have had issues with being able to focus on the assignments. I know from being a supervisor that there are some people who are unable to focus on their work at home. They were good employees when they were in an office, but the dog, the husband, their children.. all were distractions when they were home. I'm sure the students are experiencing even more distractions. A mom who homeschools wrote a piece in the Atlantic about her view, that we need to design the coursework so that everything is learning. This goes along with the idea that schoolwork should be related to life. Though that idea is rejected by some educators. However, instead of saying this is relevant to you because..., p...

Last night at dinner I did something I almost never do: I listened to the news while eating. I should have known better, but sometimes there is good news and in addition, we'd heard through the 'grapevine' that something had happened. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Tucker Carlson, March 23, 2020. Fox News The result: I was put off my dinner. I'm still suffering from indigestion this morning. One more time our government is putting an economic value on life. My sensibilities are spinning. The party that proclaims itself as being 'pro-life', the party that announced it would oppose ObamaCare because there would be government 'death panels' in charge of the end of life, was saying it was more important to get back to work by Easter, less than three weeks away, despite the experiences of Italy and China, despite what their medical experts are saying. Hobby Lobby and Liberty University, bastions of pro-life sentiment, are open despite the certainty th...