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Not getting to say goodbye

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Student relationships and keeping students motivated. Struggling with always being home and balancing work/home life

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Getting consistent participation from students and not being able to end the school year as we have in the past.  Hosting IEP meetings.

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I struggled with motivation.

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That I had no control about what was going on, I felt helpless and useless.

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Morale

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everything/students participation/not being able to communicate directly

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no knowledge of what teacher requires or being able to help with technology

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Not keeping kids engaged in WebEx

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missing people

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home distractions

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Effectively using the technology

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The engaging aspects of learning were los

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Communicating the constant changes with parents and students. Both parents and students were very confused about many things. Also trying to get a hold of parents and students through email, phone, google classroom, and remind.

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not getting kids logging in-they are checking out

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My struggle, was that I felt so disconnected and depressed

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Baby at home, crying, needing attention.  Keeping students engaged and attending!  IEP meetings on phone.

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Sitting for so long.

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EVerything was so abrupt....  all of it.  School, work, the pandemic.  Trying to balance it all....  it didn't balance.

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working during school hours only

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Not doing enough for my students. Feeling helpless

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Instilling the importance of the learning at hand in students

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Dealing with the students being sad about not being at school

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technology differences, trying to teach microsoft to students using chrome books - not compatible

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balancing with family

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Juggling family and crisis

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Getting my kids back online- some could not figure it out

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Turning it off when working from home

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Engaging the students

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Trying to motivate students who chose to go silent

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getting students enrolled in summer school

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learning the need technology

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Trying to stay motivated enough to keep my students motivated

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Staying focused when students were not.  Dealing with all of the "stuff" of helping them with their emotional health instead of doing anything with their learning.

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trying to get ahold of students

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Caring more then my students. I wanted them to succeed, learn, and grow but many of my students didn't put in the effort

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Webex struggles, and  keeping myself and students motivated

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Not being able to deliver what my students earned:  going to nationals, end of year celebrations...

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Maintaining motivation

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I think my biggest challenge was that I couldn't get in contact with a lot of my students, just not knowing that they were ok or that they were doing anything really bothered me and kept me from doing as much as I wanted to.

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Student attendance was a huge struggle.  One of my assets in the classroom is motivation, I find it difficult to motivate while distance learning

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Familiarizing my self withGoogle Classroom

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Students not coming up on line once they found out that their grade wouldn't drop!!!  Lack of motivation!!!!

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Deciding what to teach and how to teach it

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managing my own classroom/ and working for my own children

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trying to get kids focused on online learning

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I feel like my biggest challenge is that I cared more about students grades than they did..

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Not being able to fully have a WebEx with my students because of life home going on in the background

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I am a huge introvert and love alone time, but I really missed my students.  I realized that I don't love being alone ALL the time.  I wish I had done more with technology with my students.

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my biggest challenge was balancing motivating my students and my own kids

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Not being able to engage in new material/new learning

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I was very discouraged by the lack of student participation in my classes, and it affected my morale.

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getting students to participate

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No end of year club ceremony

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Getting student participation.  Using technology

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Wheels that were not squeaky did not get greased. Its harder to know if students are struggling.

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Student engagement was the most significant struggle for me.

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Balancing working and teaching my kindergartner from home

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Old dog, new tricks. Very hard to get used to. Plus, I like being at home...

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keeping the students engaged

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Preparing lessons but having few students participate.

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Getting students to log in and do the online work.

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Engagement and lack of closure, especially for Seniors.

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lack of engagement, space, focus, loss of interest

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connecting with parents/students via phone

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student participation towards the end

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Lack of accountability

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communication with students

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Lack of buy in from students.

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Was amazed at number of kids who worked after midnight

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So many...  it was the FREAKING FIRST TIME (FFT) for everything.  Trying to make sure the kids and students were all taken care of.  MANY breakdowns...

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Engagement (lack there of) and slowly losing it as time passed.

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Lack of participation as the weeks went on.......

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Working one on one with students, struggling with communication with student

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Making sure that I am as present online as I expected the students to be

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Being motivated myself to try and keep the students motivated.

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Not knowing and fear and new tech

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motivation of self and students

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Learning to use the technology I needed to use.

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Rebuilding my computer that handles video

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buy in from students. students with a passing grade KNOWING they didn't have to do any work.

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having them do school work

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Crappy internet connection; students not doing anything; staying on top of it ALL

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Communicating with inactive students, watching my toddler and teaching, staying motivated

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Helping teachers connect with students in a new setting

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Student accountability

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Keeping students engaged, interested and take their grades more serious

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Student participation

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Getting ALL of the students to "buy in."  They didn't seem to care.

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I got really sick during that time. It was hard to  keep up and try to get better.

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I lost motivation when the students did

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buy in from the kids

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going to an online learning format from scratch

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lack of student participation in webex meetings

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It was hard to motivate students from a distance

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I felt that I wasn't pulling my weight and contributing enough.

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IEP meetings

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Not being able to see the students in person

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Students and parents not setting up voicemail.