If you haven’t taught in a classroom post-Covid, you don’t know what it is like to teach the modern student.
The students have changed.
Teaching has changed.
You have to be in the classroom daily to understand what I mean.
We are in an era of “pedagogical clutter.”
There’s a surplus of methods, practices, and acronyms to learn—and administrations are in a hurry to implement them.
Teachers are constantly cramming new info, and retaining little.
Let’s slow down, simplify, and focus.
What’s changed with students since Covid?
Plenty.
But one thing stands out to me: stamina.
The stamina to read.
The stamina to write.
It wasn’t perfect before Covid, but it feels like it’s gotten worse.
What do you think?
Every once in a while, we should have a PD session where all school staff talk about teaching simply.
No jargon. No acronyms. No data slides.
Just an honest, human conversation about what really happens in classrooms—free from all the pedagogical clutter.