{"id":767,"date":"2020-06-11T23:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15i.48b.myftpupload.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2020-06-11T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:07:38","slug":"what-i-learned-from-teaching-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"What I learned from teaching online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I Can Do This:<\/strong> On my desk is a generous stack of affirmation cards from my students at the end of a difficult semester of online instruction. Without warning, on-campus classes were suspended, and we went online beginning March 17, 2020. For eleven weeks, I taught five courses, with eighty-five students, in a distance learning environment. I can do this new style of instruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Prefer the Classroom:\u00a0<\/strong>Education that works mostly requires human interaction and dialogue. While I can teach history and Bible classes online, it\u2019s the classroom setting that drew me to the profession in the first place. I much prefer a live classroom setting where I can encourage, direct, and instruct. History is a series of stories that need to be told through a human voice, not the pixels of an idle screen. I much prefer teaching in-person to online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Future Will Not be Like the Past<\/strong>: At the end of this semester, June 7, 2020, it is clear that the future of education will not be like it has been in the past. At our school, we are prepared to teach on campus or online, at a moment\u2019s notice. Education at the high school level has changed fundamentally, such that to say we\u2019ll go back to \u201cnormal\u201d won\u2019t work. We don\u2019t know what the future holds, but teachers will still be needed, whether online or in cyberspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teaching history and Bible classes at Eastern Mennonite High School, Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 25, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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