viernes, 3 de abril de 2020

Reflections on homeschooling,  technology ,covid-19 , self-asolation and the consequences on teachers' mental health

Nowadays, teachers must face many challenges, not only learning about technology and its different and useful resources , but also dealing with the demands of  our several grades/courses and not finish in a mental insane hospital.
First of all, as teachers, we have to manage our discipline, be skillfull , innovative and funny up to the arrival of the lethal virus known us covid-19. Thanks to the pandemics, apart of teachers , we are now  counsellors,  secretaries, psychologists and whatever you want. We must always be polite in our daily lives even though when we are sending-answering -texting the WhatsApp text number 99 in our cell phone , reading  endless  e- mails or correcting hundreds of spelling mistakes in a paper. As if we were machines , we have to solve everybody´s problems  as soon as possible and most of us try to do it in that way...
And what about people's reactions towards those teachers?? Do they know that we have got feelings? Do they know that we also like being well-treated?? Do they know that we also need a kind of reward when things go well? We have also got self-esteem and we need friendly advice and comments because after all we are human beings and we are doing our best to solve many problems related do self-asolation, homeschooling and  technology.
In addition, the hardest task is neither teaching our students through  ICT resources nor exchanging knowledge or help with our peers. I think the hardest one is understanding some of our authorities, i.e., from the government and , consequently, from each of our school headmasters. It seems as if the only way to show their power is to ill-treat all around them.
To sum up, I believe that covid-19 and self-asolation takes out the worst of our deepest  feelings that we try to  hide in our daily lives but I think we should be more empathic with neighbours

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