Coronavirus And Teachers

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🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This school year is proving to be unlike any other. Teaching might be a nightmare in schools doing hybrid learning, a success for those doing virtual learning, or vice versa. It all depends on which school district you're in and what resources and funding you might be able to access. So what's the experience been like so far for the teachers trying to make school happen?

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0:00.0	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, let's get started.
0:04.6	Do you need to have your name laid out in front of you?
0:08.4	You just find snow in the castle?
0:10.8	That is Sarah Chiricano.
0:12.6	In that audio you heard, she recorded the sound of her class from a recently.
0:16.0	Can you hear your Google Drive?
0:17.0	Sarah is a teacher in Utah.
0:18.6	I am in South Jordan, Utah.
0:20.6	Okay, where is that in their Salt Lake City?
0:22.6	Yeah, it's about 25 minutes south west of Salt Lake City.
0:28.5	She teaches at Mountain Creek Middle School.
0:30.6	I teach 9th grade Earth Science and AP Environmental Science, so all 9th graders.
0:37.1	I called up Sarah to see what back the school life is looking like for teachers.
0:42.3	And well, it is looking a lot different than last year.
0:46.1	Sarah Chiricano has had to change just about everything in her classroom to respond to
0:50.6	the pandemic.
0:52.1	Even the way her kids come into class.
0:54.1	So when the bell rings and I have a whole class leave, I have the door to the hallway shut
0:58.8	behind them.
1:00.3	And then I hustle around the room.
1:01.8	I've got this kind of pressurized spray.
1:04.7	It's I think it's hydrogen peroxide.
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