Zone of Proximal Development: Teaching Through Covid S1E7 What's the Optimist Upside of Teaching in a Crisis?

Everyone I know has gone into teaching from a place of idealism. To enter this field without hope would only cause relentless cognitive dissonance. How can we work with youth and not have faith in change and progress? As time goes on, the challenges we face as teachers can make us feel as though faith in the system of education is misplaced. I’m likely to think it is, but the belief in our students is not. It is that faith that keeps us going despite systemic failure. It is this faith that has likely kept us going through the chaos of teaching through Covid. This week I was reminded that there might still be room for optimism in education.

• Is there still room for optimism in teaching?
  
• How do we find our way back to teaching?
  
• What’s the upside of a crisis?
  

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