By Gregg Bragg, special to Statehouse Report | South Carolina educators and administrators are struggling to engage students while developing effective solutions for teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We need to have our teachers directing virtual classes or face-to-face, but not both, and only one topic at a time,” said Sherry East, president of the S.C. Education Association.
Teachers with whom she has spoken agreed.
A Beaufort teacher, for example, wrote the state needed to reconcile the self-paced learning of virtual programs with the needs of administrators to show classroom-style progress.
“I have students working at different sections within the curriculum,” the teacher wrote in the email, which was shared by East with Statehouse Report. “Now it's time for grades and I am being told to put in zeros for missed assignments in order to reflect an accurate account of the student grade. I think that is unfair to the student.”
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