Inside teachers' first week back in US classrooms: Nerves, disorganization, and exhaustion
Labor Day typically marks the beginning of the school year across the US, but the coronavirus pandemic has ensured that back-to-school season looks a little different this year.
Needless to say, going back to school has looked a little bit different this year: While some students have opened classroom doors, others have opened their school-issued laptops for the first time this week. among staff at 16 schools in New York City, with teachers only in classrooms since Tuesday and classes not having started yet. have died since early August after contracting the coronavirus following returns to school. While it is unclear if any of those teachers were infected at school, their deaths stoke teacher fears of returning to the classroom.Kerry-Ann Reeves, a fourth-grade teacher, donned a T-shirt that read "back to school-ish" for her first day on Tuesday.
Hand sanitizer, Clorox wipes, and more on a table inside a classroom in Provo, Utah on September 10, 2020.Wilson's district in Greenville, South Carolina, had initially announced that students and families would have the option between in-person and virtual learning. "I think as a teacher, you go in expecting that you're going to be in a Petri dish of germs," she said, but Wilson acknowledged that she's unsure what her opinion would be if she had preexisting conditions.Everyone knows kids get summer vacations, but the work often doesn't stop for teachers during those months. This year, all that work was far more confusing, disorganized, and, well, busier.
One sixth-grade English teacher at a charter school in Nashville, Tennessee told Insider that the summer's hard work barely put a dent into her workload for the school year. . Kempf said she learned about the new start date through a colleague who texted her during the mayor's press conference.She said her official school calendar wasn't posted until Saturday, six days before school was initially scheduled to start. "I felt discouraged, disrespected, disempowered, demoralized. The Department of Education and the State of New York are not showing teachers the respect that we need and the support that we need.
She's teaching completely remotely for now, but said teachers are locked into a schedule they voted on back in May — months before the district went remote. That means students and teachers may be looking at screens from around 8 am to 3:30 pm.To supplement that online learning, Coven and her fellow teachers will be completing socially distanced one on one meetings with students.
Reeves said her first day was full of laughter and smiles. She had been worried that her fourth graders wouldn't be engaged on the virtual platform, but the opposite was true.
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