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Photo: Aw Creative\/Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This summer Baltimore middle school teacher Elisabeth Budd is developing a website with a very specific purpose, one that arose after online learning challenges in this year\u2019s pandemic.<\/p>\n

Budd will use the site to post the content that she teaches her students, so parents can see and help their child if they have any questions or issues at home. She hopes it will help her students and their parents ease into the school year when the city announces its decision about the fall semester.<\/p>\n

The best way to teach<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Both public and private schools are considering the best way to teach students this fall as the coronavirus pandemic continues and the world awaits a vaccine. Not knowing what the next school year will be like has left many teachers like Budd working around uncertainty as they prepare.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for me, (I\u2019ve been) troubleshooting and saying \u2018How can I have better parent communication if we are completely virtual, or even hybrid,\u2019\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Budd hopes to begin accumulating more resources to improve family communication as well as prevent such problems as students who don\u2019t participate or online classroom environments that don\u2019t function well.<\/p>\n

Bobby Bobson, a special education teacher at North Bend Elementary\/Middle School in Baltimore, has dedicated the summer to helping other teachers develop online lessons while also bettering his own understanding of technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m maximizing my time off in the summer to build systems that will support my own teaching, but also other teachers,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m planning on doing more Google certification this year as well. I\u2019m going forward with the concept that virtual learning is going to continue to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

For some children with disabilities, there was an upside to distance learning<\/a> this spring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other teachers, however, are using the summer to prepare content that pertains to events happening across the nation. Michelle Ardillo, a language arts teacher at St. Jude Regional Catholic School in Montgomery County, is writing lesson plans to include the Margot Lee Shetterly novel \u201cHidden Figures\u201d in her class\u2019s curriculum.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this book will work well with the current focus on diversity and racial equality. I am hoping to offer it to my colleagues who teach math, science and social studies, as a cross-curricula unit,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Planning ahead<\/strong><\/h4>\n

While school systems haven\u2019t rolled out official plans, certain proposals have been discussed, such as an A\/B day schedule, hybrid learning (a mix of online learning and in-person learning) and recorded class lessons for those who don\u2019t feel comfortable going back.<\/p>\n

Bobson heard from friends in other states who have told him that their school districts will use hybrid learning in the fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only predict, but I see something similar happening in Maryland,\u201d he says, adding there are a lot of complications. Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon<\/a> laid out a blueprint for the fall return that included a number of suggestions. \u201cBut it left the ultimate decision on how learning was going to look next year to the specific school district,\u201d he says. \u201cSo, all of the districts are kind of scrambling right now, trying to make sense of the document.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without knowing what the fall semester could hold, Ardillo says that she has felt the need to over plan in case of any situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I am doubling up on what I would be doing already. I am worried that we will go back in the classroom and then have to close again due to a resurgence of the virus. The uncertainty is stressful, and the planning for both scenarios is time-consuming,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

As the start of the school year grows closer, many teachers, including Peter Ruhno, a special education teacher at Aberdeen Middle School in Harford County, feel that time is running out to make an official decision on the fate of the coming school year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of different plans, but nothing has been told to us as even like the preferred option yet,\u201d Ruhno says. \u201cI think that this month will be OK, I think the anxiety for teachers will start once the calendar switches to August, if we still don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there is currently a big question mark over what the next couple of months will look like for schools, Ruhno hopes that this past spring\u2019s sudden switch from in-person learning to online learning will prepare students and teachers for what could happen in the fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we were to stick full time with online learning, at least we had a trial period where we could see what didn\u2019t work and what we\u2019d want to tweak,\u201d he says. \u201cEssentially, [teachers] understand the need to wait to make a decision, but I wish they would just kind of rip the Band-Aid off and make a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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