A teacher waves to her students in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo: Jon Cherry/Getty Images Before the pandemic, the behavior of students in Dyonne Diggs’s high-school classroom was a “toss-up.” The high-school English teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, said that after her students spent most of last year in remote schooling, they returned changed. They’re anxious, even depressed. Some parents have told her their children have begun to cut themselves. Then there’s the aggression.
Diggs and other teachers across the country said during interviews this month that the grueling demands of pandemic teaching have left them exhausted. Some are even thinking about leaving the profession. A RAND Corporation report from March 2021 found that nearly one in four teachers said they were “likely” to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-2021 school year, especially Black teachers, compared with one in six teachers who said the same before the pandemic.
Hybrid learning made the challenges even greater, with two lesson plans for each segment of students who were at home and in school, where teaching was no longer the same. “We had to have the desks six feet apart. We had the windows open, even if it was 20 degrees outside, we’re not able to do really any of the teaching methods that I learned in grad school, you can’t really interact, the kids can’t face each other. You can’t have them moving around the room.
Absent necessary resources, teachers struggle to be all their students need, especially in lower-income areas. “Teaching has gotten a lot harder, even in the last ten years, and the demands of our students are so much greater, especially in communities like mine in Biddeford,” said Beth Donohoe, a 25-year teaching veteran in Maine. A lack of funding means necessary support positions go unfilled or are deemed unnecessary by officials. That doesn’t work out well in practice, she said.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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