- I have a good memory for names and faces, yet I recognize 33% fewer people because of their masks. Conversely I’m almost positive that if my new students took off their masks, I couldn’t recognize half of them.
- I teach four of my five classes with students attending virtually and in-person…simultaneously. It’s hard to develop any classroom rhythm.
- Wearing a mask for five hours a day is significantly different than wearing a mask for thirty minutes a day.
- The day-long mask becomes a veritable smorgasbord for the senses.
- My students have been routinely gracious and flexible.
- Take the regular push and pull of energy and enervation that accompanies classroom teaching. Then multiply it times one hundred.
- Tech is fickle, so I will always bring a backup plan…and the phone number of our IT desk.
- Logical validity flies over my students’ heads, but it flows over a lot of people’s heads.
- The students who are here want to be here. The best ones want to learn while they’re at it.
- This semester is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. Yet, I get the sense that we’re going remote before it’s all over. That means I better sprint while the sun’s out so I’ll have less road to travel once it goes down.
God remains good. All the time. I am glad to have a job, and I am glad that job is teaching.