The COVID-19 pandemic has shut whole communities down, including ours. Most heartbreaking for me was the fact that Indiana's governor ordered all schools closed for the remainder of the school year. I completely agree with doing that, but still my heart aches for the kids, the teachers, and all of those involved in teaching the kids. (I am proud to say that my school corporation is paying all laid off hourly workers their normal pay until the end of the school year.)
I've wanted to give back in some way as the pandemic progresses, but since I have a compromised immune system, I have to stay home. I'm not even doing my own grocery shopping - Lisa does that for us and drops it off. But my friend and fellow teacher, Kathy, came up with an idea to help the overstressed teachers who are trying to keep their students' learning going via remote learning.
Kathy, Nacho, and me after teaching a lesson together at school.
Kathy and I have done a lot of collaborative teaching during our careers. Currently she is teaching high school English half time while mentoring the 80+ new teachers that were hired for the current school year. She put out an email to them that, if anyone wanted, she would prepare lessons and teach them to their students, and she asked me if I would help her teach those lesson.
It's been a lot of fun to dust off my teaching chops ands them, but even better, I feel I am helping and contributing as I help these new teachers out. Just for fun, here are two lessons that Kathy and I taught.
This teacher asked us to teach a lesson about story elements to her second grade classroom.
And this teacher, also one who has second graders, asked us to read aloud a story. Since Kathy is blind, she asked me to be the one to do the read aloud.
Now, we have our fingers crossed that we are not asked to prepare and film a lesson on something like dissecting a frog or acid base reaction tests, or something of that ilk!
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