Learning Together While Apart:

How COVID-19 has impacted our ability to connect.

LT4 Living Discipline Photo Essay: Health

CDPD 500

Stacy Pickering
Hello…. hello… is anybody there?
Health is a key subject in school, now more than
ever.
 Helping our students grow themselves is
fundamental and our sense of what connection
really means is being challenged.
Teachers are being challenged to assess the well
being of their students through a screen.
How are you able to tell from a distance how your
students are fairing and how they may be
struggling emotionally, physically or mentally?
 Without them speaking up or answering your
probing questions many issues can go unnoticed or
unresolved for extended periods of time, creating
even more damage.
 Without the connections that humans are so
reliant upon, practicing interpersonal relationship
skills are much more difficult than normal.
We need to be mindful of the fact that “life skills
are not learned in isolation”
-Health and Life Skills Kindergarten to Grade 9
Alberta Program of Study
Students use their school and community to help
shape their identity through their socialization with
other. Practicing different roles and trying on new
identities.
How can we facilitate this learning once their
device is turned off?
 It is important to practice self care in times like
these. By speaking to your students about how
you are taking caring for yourself you are
modelling best practices of how to cope through
this pandemic.
Students, teachers and parents need their support
systems in times of crisis. Isolation makes all of
this just that much more difficult.
Now, more than ever, how do we feel connected
when physically apart?
 References
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