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NPR Ed
What Teaching Looks Like During Coronavirus Closures
Seventh grade social studies teacher Hannah Klumpe thought she’d have
more time. On a Friday, a student asked her, “Do you think they’re
going to close school?”
“Oh, not right now,” she said.
That weekend, South Carolina’s governor announced schools would close
immediately — and Klumpe hasn’t seen her students in-person since.
She’s not alone.
Most of America’s schools are closed, according to a tally by Education
Week, and nearly all of the nation’s school-age children have been sent
home. What began as two- to three-week school closures now seem capable
and likely to outlast the school year.
Educators are now faced with the impossible task of replicating the
functions of a school for months without an actual school building.
This means that millions of teachers, like Hannah Klumpe, are at home,
having to tackle technologies new and old to reach and teach every
student.
NPR talked to teachers and school leaders across the country about how
this vast experiment in remote learning is unfolding. Here’s what they
told us…
To read the transcript or listen to the interview, click here
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