PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Students have been remote or hybrid learning for nearly a year, and many will face a whole new set of challenges when they finally fully return to the classroom.
Education and parenting expert Dr. Karen Aronian said getting students adjusted to full-time in-person instruction will take remediation and rehabilitation.
“The challenge is getting the team up to competition ready. You know, it’s the same sort of idea you would have for a team that has atrophied during this time frame,” Aronian said.
Online instruction has not been as rigorous as in-person classes, with teachers reporting getting 50% of what they would normally accomplish in in-person classes, she noted.
Kids will most likely need summer school and even weekend instruction to make up for what they’ve lost.
“The idea that we have to get more time in school accomplished so we can scale up our students again and get them back into the mode of what school feels like,” Aronian said.
Students could end up overwhelmed and overstressed if they have assignments they aren’t academically prepared to handle.
“Schools and colleges, they must consider the student body first and all of the support and help they will need socially, emotionally, mentally, cognitively, academically right now, and they must continue to meet their student body where their student body is,” she advised.
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Aronian is optimistic education could end up stronger than ever from what school districts have learned during this time.
“I think there is going to be a lot of creativity and innovation and everybody is reinventing the wheel.”
Aronian said schools also need to provide better tech education to their staff so teachers can improve the content of online instruction.