Dedicated to my hardworking colleagues and good students and respected parents
Virtual training!
Has it happened to you that you want to explain something to a person who has lost his eyesight and his ears are heavy? It’s hard, isn’t it?
Now, if you doubt that the other party is really blind and deaf or pretending, it becomes much more difficult. no
Online and virtual training is exactly that;
The other party says that there is a problem with the microphone, and the webcam is also defective and does not activate.
Is he telling the truth or not? God knows; The lie that is institutionalized in this society! And you have no choice but to accept his excuses.
Every minute he sends a text message that has no sound or receives it with low quality.
With the mischievous experience that you have in your mind from the year before, you have two hearts to believe or not.
You have to teach an audience that you don’t know whether they are sleeping or awake, using WhatsApp and Instagram or chatting with their friends.
You must think positively and continue teaching. But your heart does not go with this kind of teaching.
Even if you are silent for a second, the voice of the students will be heard from the other side of the system saying: Sir, we have no sound, sir, our internet is weak, sir.
You have to speak in one breath, there is no place for discussion and questions and answers; The amount of content is very high, non-functional, featureless and worthless in most textbooks, forcing you to think about finishing the book within a specific deadline and become a single theologian.
The class ends while your vocal cords and larynx are inflamed and you cannot clear the phlegm stuck in your throat with several coughs.
It is one o’clock after midnight.
You see a student’s message on the phone! He begs you to give him a short time to submit his assignment. You don’t feel like saying no. He had a week and was carefree. Again, you say there is no problem to send it tomorrow.
but Tomorrow his father will call the school and say: a certain teacher stressed my son in the middle of the night and asked him for homework!!!
This is where you want to kiss your conscience and emotions and throw them away.
*All these are a part of the thousands of problems of online education for me as a teacher*.
At home, you disturb your wife and children, lest their noise disturb your education.
Exams that you don’t know who answered, hundreds of photos that students sent and you have to blind your eyes through the small window of your mobile phone and correct them.
And the staggering cost of the Internet, the depreciation of phones, laptops, tablets, etc.
Online education, exactly for me who is addicted to teaching and students and school, is like smelling artificial flowers, like a kiss sticker on the platform of virtual network.
For me, who has dealt with energetic teenagers for a lifetime, talking to a student from behind the multi-paned glass of the online learning prison is more of a torture and punishment than teaching.
The fatigue of these three virtual months is more than the fatigue of tens of years of face-to-face teaching in classes of 40 students in previous years.
* But you, yes, you honorable family, judge unkindly and say: teachers are sitting at home
Dear mother and father, I think you have well understood the hard work and effort of teachers and you have experienced their exhausting work for at least these three months. You publish in the virtual space, you can understand! From burning the child’s book in the yard!*
* So if the schools open again, be sure to visit your child’s school and watch the teacher’s miracle and the height of his affection, peace and human tolerance in your child’s class. And if your pride allows it, kiss his hands*
This post is written by H_Zmo