SJSD first year teachers party (5-29-20)

SJSD first year teachers party (5-29-20)

Mercifully over.

With the coronavirus pandemic limiting schools to only online learning, it proved to be challenging for both teachers and students alike for first year teachers, this probably wasn't the way they had it all planned out..

Kq2's kilee thomas spoke with a few of them and what they'll take away from it all.

No matter the profession say the first year is the hardest say adding a pandemic to the mix doesn't make it any easier your first year is incredibly difficult."

"it was definitely a challenging first year."

"this has been unlike any other first year that anyone in history of education has ever had."

"i agree that's 100 percent true."that's why the st.

Joseph school district held this end of year party where first year teachers got a free meal and some quality time "today is just a culmination of a year's worth of hard work and the last four weeks of the module's virtual learning."

First year teachers had some learning of their own to do "each week, they had reading and videos and assignments.

Every friday, we would meet, each curricular advisor, with 10-12 new teachers on a zoom meeting and discuss what they learned throughout the week."

First year teachers were just settling into their new careers and then came covid-19 they say orientation didn't exactly include a guide into teaching during a health crisis "but it definitely is different.

You can't sing, you can't play instruments all together, so it looked very different."

Transitioning to online learning was tough but teachers say not getting to say goodbye to their kids was the hardest part "that is the one thing i had a new teacher tell me.

If she had known that the last day before spring break was truly going to be the last day, she would have handled that day differently."

"as a teacher, those children become your children and your family in the classroom.

So, not getting to say those final words is difficult."

As for the big takeaway this year "just a lot of flexibility."

"be prepared if it doesn't work, especially with little ones to be like, 'okay, let's do this now.'" reporting in st.

Joseph, kilee thomas, kq2 news sjsd advisors say all 48 first year teachers have a few more online learning modules in august ... and then they're starting with a whole new batch of