Professors
Professors Jump Into In-Person Teaching After a Year of Zoom
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This semester, many professors are eager to be back in the physical classroom.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/professors/)
This semester, many professors are eager to be back in the physical classroom.
The guinea pigs of Zoom University, the students, get poked and prodded with teaching tactics class after class every day. All professors want is for us to unmute and, for the love god, just learn. Students experience the entire spectrum of creative distance-learning teaching methods. Professors test just one experiment: their own.
Many undergraduates are now seasoned Zoomers who understand what it takes to make a classroom work because we have experienced what doesn’t. Professors, however, only know what engages a digital classroom in the context of their own courses.
Professors are getting ready to shift their classes online for the second time this year. This time, however, they are more prepared.
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Teaching classes through Zoom has also had an effect on professors’ mental health and wellbeing.
Instructors hold tremendous power over their students’ well-being, and it’s time that they acknowledge this.
As the second week of Zoom classes resume, students reflect on professors’ practices and responses to distanced learning.
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