After A Year Of Remote Classes, Teachers Are Meeting Students For The First Time
As schools reopen — either fully or for hybrid learning — teachers are getting the chance to meet their students face-to-face.
As students walked into Jahdai Jeffords' classroom for the first time, he greeted them with an assignment: "Say something!"
Jeffords, who teaches Spanish and Latin American studies at Carver High School in Winston-Salem, N.C., had been teaching remotely since March 2020. When school opened back up almost a year later on February 15th, he had never met, or in some cases, even seen many of the students he had been teaching.
To get over any first-day jitters, he rigged up a game: Don't introduce yourself by name.
"I'd say, 'Wait! Don't tell me!' And try to guess their voices,"
