COVID19 by Michael Shelton https://padlet.com/mshelton10/gu2sr5tp2r60mf5w Complete a 5 minute quick-write to the prompt: "How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected you?"; then post your response. Finally comment on two other posts with a minimum of 3 sentences." en-us 2023-10-03 20:53:31 UTC 2025-01-29 20:01:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Mr. Shelton's Covid-19 Response mshelton10 https://padlet.com/mshelton10/gu2sr5tp2r60mf5w/wish/2759886076 As an educator, I am in an interesting perspective to see how Covid changed the world. My lense I view all of this emphasizes the world of education. From the beginning, back in 2019, I recall being alarmed at the amount of education we were able to push out to students. 

At the time, I was teaching 4th graders, and was instructed not to exceed 1.5 hours of student work per day. In addition, the work I was giving them could not be new material. Essentially, we stopped teaching students and tried to retain what was previously taught.

Looking back at the world through that experience now, I wonder if I should have pushed back more to increase the engagement. The reason, I suppose is the loss of structured days, seat time, rigor, determination, drive, passion for education, etc. that we would have expected. 

We, as educators and administrators, have had to rehabilitate the environment and help students transition to a post-Covid world. We still need educated individuals to perform some fairly significant and substantial tasks. The issue is the increased resistance we are now required to work through to get the same results from previous years of students at similar age levels.

I feel we are making progress, but the road to success was never meant to be easy. As with Atlas of old, if you want to move the world, you must be prepared to carry it on your shoulders.

Mr. Shelton]]> 2023-10-23 23:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mshelton10/gu2sr5tp2r60mf5w/wish/2759886076 mcramer94 https://padlet.com/mshelton10/gu2sr5tp2r60mf5w/wish/3303720337 The virus affected me because at the time I was in second grade and we started online, I was in online all of third and it affected me because I was not able to socialize with any of my friends and I have realized that COVID tool that ability from a lot of people and there are a lot more people now who don't socialize because of COVID. I also feel like it slowed down learning and a lot of the time we were not even learning anything we were just going over old stuff. Last COVID made the rotation back into school very hard and now many people are behind in school because of it.


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