3 Tips for Faculty Returning to the Classroom this Fall
Summer will be over before you know it. Here are a few ideas to get you thinking about how you can safely and sanely resume business as unusual.
Summer could not have come any sooner for most of us working and learning in the higher education system. This last year was bad…I mean really bad. Hundreds of thousands of our colleagues lost their jobs, many permanently. Millions of college students suffered through being held captive by a Zoom screen, forced to produce unreasonable amounts of discussion boards and quizzes with very little pedagogical value. Parents and spouses suffered, too, as they saw their student or cog in the educational wheel be forced to endure what amounts to the most deleterious academic year in modern history. This last year was bad, and we are being forced to return to the same hallways, offices, classrooms, dorms, eating facilities, gyms, bars and restaurants, stadiums, spirit shops, and more that we were told were too dangerous for us to gather in…and we’re doing it in less than 3 months.
Now, naturally, your administrators have put together a few choice SCORM files for you to advance through — probably while also preventing you from online shopping — but the only thing these greed heads care about is…
