Just before she logged on to start her first day teaching virtually this school year, Chrysantha Norwood said she was “nervous-cited.”
“That’s some nervousness and some excitement. Excitement about seeing our kiddos. Nervous about who knows what this day will bring.”
By the end of the day, the sixth-grade teacher at Distinctive College Prep: Harper Woods, said she was laughing to keep from crying. She said emotions were high on the first day. Everyone was excited to see each other, but there was also a “Zoom catastrophe.”
Norwood is one of four Michigan teachers who recorded video diaries for MLive to document their first month back to school during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She’s making it work remotely, but says she really misses that human interaction with students: “One of the best things about school is the high fives, the fist bumps and the hugs.”
Watch Norwood’s video diary here:
Annelise Holcomb’s class is meeting fully in person this year. The fourth-grade teacher at Bethlehem Lutheran Church and School in Saginaw says she’s already had COVID-19, so she’s not too worried about getting sick again.
Her ten students have socially-distant desks, and she follows an intense cleaning protocol, but Holcomb says it takes some reminding to keep the kids apart. Despite the extra work, she’s very happy to be teaching in person.
“It is really truly a great blessing and is very rewarding to be back in the classroom, to be face-to-face with my students, and to be able to hear them learn in person and interact with them and make those great relationships.”
Watch Holcomb’s video diary here:
Matthew Bernia teaches agricultural sciences to sixth through 12th graders at St. Louis Public Schools. Most of his students are back in the classroom, but he also has virtual students to manage, and that immediately became a challenge for him.
By the end of his third week, Bernia said he realized he needed to strike a balance: “Spending hours at night 'til 2 a.m. working on curriculum and videos and stuff and then getting up at 5 and continuing to do that is just not sustainable...and it’s not what my students need.”
Watch Bernia’s video diary here:
At Freeland Middle School, students began the year on an A/B schedule with only half the students coming in each day for the first two weeks of school.
Eighth grade social studies teacher Philip Schwedler says students are generally doing a good job wearing their masks, but sometimes they feel a bit too safe, and need some friendly reminders to stay socially distant.
Watch Schwedler’s video diary here:
Lori Chapman is a producer on MLive’s Video Team.
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