School Year 2020-2021: Our Life After Covid-19 Outbreak

Micah Ella C. Santos

In this day and age of technology, we in the education sector tend to focus now on the advantages of using these new technologies in our teaching especially with our current situation where face to face classes are suspended and we mostly depend on distance learning strategies. Our presentations are now all done within a software, our worksheets and activities are all printed and there are now online classrooms that we can access with the internet that acts like a real life classroom would, where you could gather your pupils in one place and where you can post all the classwork for a certain class.

With all of these going on for almost a year, we have now adapted and are now more familiar with the use of these technology related teaching strategies and techniques. As lockdowns ease and schools start to reopen in some countries, how will we work, live and thrive in the post-pandemic future? What will school mean if our classes today are virtual and we lose those day-to-day social interactions? Are we ready to shift again into more regular teaching and learning routine? Flag ceremony every morning, , greeting each other and kissing the hand of teacher in the hallway, hanging out inside the canteen with peers or just roaming around the school premises during break time.

Life after the Covid-19 outbreak will never be the same. We are at the beginning of the end, waiting for a new beginning, and as we transistion back to our regular teaching environment, it will take time for everyone to take a grip on with the new normal. Our challenge will be to not go on exactly as before, but to reflect on what we have experienced, and take a great turn in education for the better. We may say things will never be the same again, but we do know we're going to do our utmost to be the best.

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The author is Teacher I at Mancatian Elementary School