{"id":97865,"date":"2021-06-26T21:19:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97865"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:01:42","slug":"teaching-after-the-pandemic-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/teaching-after-the-pandemic-the-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching After the Pandemic: The New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><u>Teaching After the Pandemic: The New Normal <\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Day One of the 21-22 School Year<\/p>\n<p>In a Hybrid Model Classroom<\/p>\n<p>Where Virtual and In-Person students are taught as one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I address the Virtual students,<\/p>\n<p>Also known as <em>The Zoomers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone gazes at a screen<\/p>\n<p>While I attempt to engage, but<\/p>\n<p>Nothing but black boxes stare at me.<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>I type a question in chat.<\/p>\n<p>No one responds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I turn to the In-Person students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClass, today we will\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, stay in your square.<\/p>\n<p>Now class\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Jan, stop twirling you\u2019re your mask and put it back on.<\/p>\n<p>Okay class\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Alice and Kate, you can\u2019t sit next to one another and, no, you cannot share crayons.<\/p>\n<p>Class&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Johnny, you cannot use the restroom until your assigned time.<\/p>\n<p>Class\u2026<\/p>\n<p>BRRRING!<\/p>\n<p>Um, class dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching After the Pandemic: The New Normal &nbsp; Day One of the 21-22 School Year In a Hybrid Model Classroom Where Virtual and In-Person students are taught as one. &nbsp; I address the Virtual students, Also known as The Zoomers. Everyone gazes at a screen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97879,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97865\/revisions\/97879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}