Category: Hybrid Teaching

  • Learning Gain #3: Listen to the Children

    Last week, on the one year anniversary of teaching pandemic school, my fifth grade teaching colleagues and I invited our students to reflect on the past year. We asked our students to consider what they’ve learned, how they’ve grown, what they’ve missed, and even what they now understand that they didn’t understand 12 months ago.…

  • Learning Gain #2: Blunders & Missteps Modeled

    “I can’t hear you. I see you’re not muted, but I can’t hear you.” The images on the Zoom screen showed mouths moving and gestures of conversation, but I could not hear anyone on the other end. Suddenly, messages started flooding the chat… I can hear her, Ms. Nosek.She sounds fine to me.Ms. Nosek check…

  • Learning Gain #1: Friendship Found

    During a meeting back in October with my fifth grade teaching partners and principal, I expressed that I was worried about one of my students. “I’m really concerned that Jill does not have a close friend in the current cohort. She needs that connection to feel safe,” We were working to place our students into…

  • Learning Gained: Understanding & Knowledge Found During a Year of Teaching Pandemic School

    Close to one year ago, on March 13, 2020, my school along with many others across the country closed our physical buildings. We spent the remainder of that spring figuring out how to both teach students from a distance and navigate life in a pandemic. I took the lessons learned from that spring and paired…