040. Our HONEST Thoughts on Teaching in a Pandemic

Teaching to the TOP

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Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This year we are all trying our very best to put a smile on each day and get through all the changes and uncertainty that the year brings. In this episode we share our brutally honest thoughts on teaching during a pandemic. Join us as we share the positives, negatives and how we are working to make it through the school year. SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Farray, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.3	So today, we are going to be sharing our honest, I said honest thoughts about teaching in a pandemic.
0:19.5	This is going to be a very casual conversation. And that's
0:23.3	just exactly what it's going to be. Right, Michelle? This is a conversation between us. And we want to share
0:28.7	all of what's been happening as we've kind of started diving into this first couple of weeks of
0:35.1	teaching. Right? Yeah. For Bridget, she's been in school longer than I have. I don't
0:39.7	know, two weeks, three? Two weeks. Okay. I've only been in school for one week. Now, we have not
0:45.0	planned out this episode. Typically, we sit down and we kind of bullet out an outline of what we're
0:49.8	going to talk about. This episode, I'm currently looking at a pretty blank Google Doc. So I'm going to
0:55.6	throw out an idea, Bridget. Okay, go. What if we each share three positive things from teaching
1:02.2	in a pandemic that we've experienced and then three negative things? Do you think that would work?
1:07.6	I like that. I think that's going to work. I think that's perfect. Let's do that.
1:11.2	Okay. But first, let's go ahead and share a TSAH or time-sucking hurdle from Samantha. It's kind of a long
1:16.8	one. So I'm going to read it all and then respond to it. Samantha says, I completely understand this
1:22.5	school year is new to everyone, including administration. But I can't stand, those are in all capital letters,
1:29.1	not knowing what I need to do. We have very little direction giving to us in our district.
1:34.4	Hopefully other districts are better at this. And as a result, wind up wasting valuable time.
1:39.4	We often complete tasks on our checklist, only to be told that's not how they want it to be done
1:45.1	and then have to redo it. But we are given no direction in the first place, extremely frustrating,
1:50.2	and a complete time-sucking hurdle. I mean, I think that sums it up for just about every single
1:57.4	teacher across the United States. Could I even say the world? Yeah, Samantha, I was going to say you
2:04.5	are 100% not alone. I'm in the same boat. I feel like I get 10 emails a day and every email is
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