STD-5 Sub-Gujarati Chapter-2

Standard-5 Gujarati Subject Chapter-2 "Parvat Tara" (Poem)

Must Share For Every Students

What the COVID-19 disruption made glaringly clear is this: K-12 is still mired in the 19th century, banking on paper-based curricula … but venturing a toe into the 21st century with this computer stuff.  Schools’ copying machines ran 24/7 churning out packets of paper that were manually delivered to students’ homes. Oh yes, schools published lists of URLs on their websites that complemented — somehow — the paper-packets or sent the lists of URLs to the students via the school’s LMS (Learning Management System).  Like we said: we cannot blame classroom teachers for the failure of remote learning.

So, what are schools going to do to prepare for the possibility of school closures or open/closed hybrids starting in the Fall 2020?

"As the school year comes to a close, districts are focused on making improvements. Some will use summer break to retool remote learning, provide teachers with professional training to use it …"

No, No, NOOOOO! That’s not what schools should be doing during the summer break! Rather, K-12 needs to step back and think it through and join the 21st century: the problem isn’t preparing teachers for remote learning, the problem is thinking that remote learning is something different than classroom learning, that teaching in the classroom is done one way and teaching remotely is somehow a different type of teaching.