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Student isolation


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For some this time of isolation has had very little effect. They get up each morning and go to their essential labor keeping this country moving forward. For them isolation is just a word perhaps even a blessings as the roads are easier to travel. But for the student and the teacher isolation changes everything.

Teachers sit alone seeking to understand how to teach students they cannot reach, explain concepts that are difficult in the classroom. Each seeking how to encourage and motivate children to learn while they too sit alone.

The introvert smiles as they sit alone reading the material assigned by their teacher enjoying the lack of pressure of trying to interact with the loud and boisterous. While the extrovert sits in greater agitation frustrated by their inability to interact and feed off of the energy surrounding them. The teacher sits, ponders, hopes, struggles, craving to teach, to reach, to elevate.

The teacher no longer waits for class to return but has taken up the challenge to teach those sitting alone. Each teacher sifting through ideas and thoughts, searching for the tool that will reach and inspire. Seeking to find the right words to lift a spirit and instigate learning. Those precious words or that tool that will make the difference. For each teacher understands the truth of their trade, that no teacher is successful until their student learns, until that student gains not just knowledge but understanding of the topic. Success is found in the light coming on he eyes of the students when they grasp the concepts.

Now each sits alone, isolated yet struggling to learn or teach. Each remains in isolation yet searching to touch, to explain. Isolated yet undaunted, alone but determined. Teachers have been called to reach new heights, they must build bricks but have not been given the straw, but they will still strive to build their students, striving to produce solid fired bricks regardless of their limitations. Isolation, perhaps it is just a word.

Blessings


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Greg Rolfe

3 years ago #2

#1
Pascal Derrien I fully agree that online teaching has it's place it cannot replace the face to face ability to inspire. Besides it is much harder to read micro facial expressions while online and teachers use those expression constantly to guide them as they teach.

Pascal Derrien

3 years ago #1

The online thingie has not replaced the campus atmosphere how could it ?馃

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