I am not going to pretend that we all don’t know what is happening in the world right now. The Corona Virus is changing a lot about our world right before our eyes. This includes the way we are teaching and learning and there was not much of a learning curve.
I feel like there are two types of educators in the world right now:
- Educators who are comfortable learning new ways of teaching and adapting instruction to include new methodologies and technologies to meet the needs of the learners in class.
- Educators who are struggling because they have always done things certain ways and are either struggling to change or unwilling to change.
I would like to think I can include myself in the former category. I have always tried to be the person that would be the guinea pig for new technologies in my classroom. To be fair, this has contributed to the greying of my hair at times, but I’ve learned what I could and moved on.
The world changed quickly during the month of March and there were definitely teachers out there who could not cope with the change. The question that I’ve been pondering over the past couple of weeks is:
Whose fault is it that teachers can’t cope with change?
Is it the teacher’s fault? Is it their supervisor’s fault? Is it their employer’s fault? Is it society’s fault?
I’m not sure that I have any answers to this question, but it something I’ve had a lot of time to ponder these questions in the past few weeks. Hopefully in the coming months educators, in general, are going to be prepared to change multiple times because of all the uncertainty caused by our current global situation.