Distance Learning: How Will We Get Through This?

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Originally published in TEACH Magazine, March/April 2021 Issue

By Sherry Siewert

Teachers and parents (and teachers as parents) are scrabbling through a tool box of teaching and parenting techniques, looking for the right tools to help them with managing students. Too many are coming up empty-handed in this new world of distance learning.

Teachers have been forced to abandon the classroom management tools that they are accustomed to. As a result, they find it challenging to provide instruction without a firm grasp on student focus. They are speaking words into cyberspace with no assurance that they are reaching listening ears.

Alternatively, parents have been forced into the role of classroom manager. They are responsible for keeping their children accountable for their schoolwork and behavior, and many are doing this for multiple children at different grade levels and for teachers of various teaching styles.

Educators desperately want to help the parents but feel cut off from their students and familiar resources. Parents feel an obligation to step up to the plate but have no idea how to swing the bat. What if there was a way to combine tried-and-true classroom management tools with parenting techniques, giving all stakeholders a new toolbox to rummage through?

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Sherry Siewert holds a Master of Education degree from Northcentral University in Arizona. She is in her third year teaching English for an online high school and has several years’ experience teaching middle school in a brick-and-mortar classroom.

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Sherry Siewert
Sherry Siewert
Sherry Siewert holds a Master of Education degree from Northcentral University in Arizona. She is in her third year teaching English for an online high school and has several years’ experience teaching middle school in a brick-and-mortar classroom.

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