The pandemic has led many schools to offer both classroom and virtual instruction, but teachers say doing both concurrently is exhausting.
Michael Loccisano / Getty ImagesEvery weekday morning, Paul Yenne sets up five different devices — including two laptops, an iPhone and a screen-caster that projects videos to a large screen — to get ready for the 19 fifth-grade students who come to his classroom and the six who log on from home.
“The most exhausting thing is just to try and hold attention in two different places and give them at least somewhat equal weight,” he said. “What kind of wears on me the most is just thinking, 'I don't know that I did the best for every kid,' which is what I try and do every day when I go in." ”I think that kind of exhaustion we had from last year has kind of compounded as now we're being asked to do essentially two jobs at once,” Yenne said. “The big question right now is, 'How long can we continue doing this?'"While many schools call this form of teaching “hybrid,” experts label it “concurrent teaching” or “hyflex," modes originally designed for university and graduate-level students.
“The context of the situation at the elementary level is so different than the situation that we designed this for," he said."A lot of the principles can work but challenges are also a lot more extreme, especially around managing students.” "It's extremely chaotic," she said, adding that if school officials were to visit her classroom, they would understand how their decisions about hybrid education really affected teachers.
Smith said she is speaking up now because she wants other teachers to feel more comfortable doing so.
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