Teaching Through a School Closure
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash One morning the staff at my school got a message saying that we would be talking about a possible school closure at the next staff meeting. When I met another teacher on my way in one morning, he asked what I thought about it. "Think we'll close?" he asked. "Nah," I replied. Our meeting about what might happen on a Wednesday. On Thursday night when I was watching the evening news, I saw that public schools were going to close. I checked Slack. We were closing. On Friday kids were sent to assemblies while teachers planned and prepared. After a week of teaching online during an emergency school closure, these are my thoughts. The Tech During the first two days, students had a lot of technical issues. I was a little suprised, but I guess I shouldn't have been. At school students use Chromebooks and at home ... Notice how I lumped PCs, Macs, and "laptops" together. Not the best way ...