Last year, students couldn’t interact with their friends, and teachers couldn’t teach face-to-face. Especially in elementary schools or kindergartens. They must use more interesting methods to attract students so that students can be more attentive. 

      Last year, my mandarin project changed from a face-to-face class to an online class. Indeed, it saved the time to find a classroom from an administrative point of view. But Students’ learning absorption is limited from the perspective of education

     Although it was a disaster, I saw everyone’s crisis management and the whole people started to use digital learning. The world is sharing interesting and practical equipment and software, so that every teacher can teach more ideas and creativity.

     Therefore, it is crucial that the innovation and creativity stimulated by this crisis be leveraged to make education systems more just, inclusive and resilient.

I was really touched recounts Sriram. “We were able to create something interesting and innovative that a child with no access but found a way to use the resource for his own benefit.” Final, I believe we can overcome everything and find new ways.

Covid-19 is causing huge changes to the entire world. Every aspect of our life is getting the impact, especially education and work.

Students must to used to learn online, every task must be done on their own computer screen, having exam, reading, doing assignment, and the saddest part is they can only meet their friends on the screen. When online school had just started, many parents also reported that their children’s eyes were too tired while staring at the computer screen from the beginning of the day till noon. A few parents bought anti radiation glasses for their children to protect their eyes from harmful radiation.

As a teacher, I also encountered some problems while teaching online. I joined Pahoa school since July last year, it was my very first time did online-teaching. Although I had experience in teaching before, but online teaching was a challenge for me that time. From learning all applications and softwares which were used in teaching online, till finding ways on creating interesting learning method for students to prevent students from getting bored, because some of them can easily get bored in online class. The most challenging part for me until today is collecting students’ assigments, some of them did not submit their works on time, it become harder for teachers because we cannot reach students directly. 

But I believe there are always two sides in one thing, the good and bad side, it goes the same too with the impact which covid-19 brings to us. Many creative websites, applications used for teaching are starting to show up, teachers are starting to learn new creative ways in teaching students, peoples are starting to see education in a better different way, learning can be done in any circumstances, and it is proved that human being have the capacity to overcome every hard situation. 

 

Both teachers and students are very dependent on the internet network. From my experience during online teaching, some of my students is very difficult to be reached. Sometimes they also didn’t submit their homework on time. However I also have some diligent and talentful students that could create very beautiful paper cutting. In my opinion, there are two sides of the impact of online teaching, the good thing and the bad thing. I think the good thing are we improved our computer skills and of course the knowledge of online platform for teaching that we used such as Google Meet, Google Classroom, and some online games to support our teaching. The bad thing is both teachers and students sometimes felt tired to be online in front of the computer everyday, it’s also not good for our eyes facing the computer in long hours without rest. In the social aspect, the students also loose the chance to interact with their friends directly like in the school. 

 

At the end, I hope this pandemic can be end soon, so we can get back to normal situation and meet each other. Thank you.

 

    And on upon receiving news that I have to works through virtual means I was thrilled that it would be a great experience meeting students and colleagues that never seen me in person, and it is! This also leads to new challenge as students should face new studying environment that they’re not used to with, in this case, their home. Which suppose to be place where they relax, where they play and having their own time, now that place on designated time turns into a classroom with only themselves and the camera. with teacher that they never seen or meet before, which is me. but everything turns out to work out just well for me because not only that I have great colleagues but the students also going well with the class. 

 

    I really hope the pandemic would be over soon so I can finally visit Pahoa in Indonesia and meeting my colleagues and get a real face-to-face with everyone or be in the real Pahoa building which I didn’t have to chance to do yet.

I started to work in Pahoa in July 2020.  

Before came to Pahoa, although I had four months of experience in online classes, I was not very familiar, and Pahoa did not use Zoom. After came to here, I found that I had to learn to use Google classrooms and many other new websites and new APPs. So for me, the challenges of these changes are enormous.
Then as a new teacher, I didn't have a chance to met with my students. So at the beginning of the class, I was very nervous because I didn't know what impression I had made on them. Later, as we had more and more lessons, we became familiar with each other. Now we chat online a lot. 

To be honest, this pandemic has certainly brought us a lot of trouble, but it has also brought us some benefits. For example, teachers and students have learned to use a lot of websites and some APPs. So that our computer skills have been significantly improved. 

 

In the end, we still have to believe that everything will be back to normal. We’ll meet each other at school soon.