She mentions a proverb that helped her at the beginning and throughout this journey: “Expect nothing. Coach Nicole Trotta, who teaches Anatomy and Physiology in the Maimonides Upper School, approached the situation with a very open mind. Teachers, on the other hand, had a different outlook on the next few months. I had to adjust myself and get used to many new shifts in days.” As Dean Sandler (‘21) comments, “It’s very stressful how my weekly routine changed so fast.
Students had, perhaps, blindsided themselves since the very beginning by only focusing on the fact that campus was about to close. Samantha Veinbergs (‘21) adds, “As days passed this ‘quaran-cation’ was not as fun as I thought it would be, it actually kept getting more and more serious and dangerous.”Ĭoach Nicole Trotta conducts her Anatomy and Physiology class online as her students pay close attention. But, I wonder if this has any connection to classes being online?” Daniella Surpin (‘21) states, “It feels like I have been getting a lot more homework from my teachers. However, their perspective on the situation did not take too long to shift, either. On March 12, the last day that classes took place on campus, various students showed their excitement for shifting to virtual learning by screaming with joy and jumping up and down with their classmates.
“ But, as the situation began to get more severe and virtual learning turned into our reality, all of us, students and teachers, are making huge efforts to make it work.” “At first…we kind of took it as a joke,” Fania Pupko (‘21) comments. As part of SDJA’s response to this pandemic, before the campus closed in mid-March, multiple classes were used to help teachers and students become familiar with Zoom. Just like a student vexed by their math test, the world has had to find solutions to a problem that is hard to understand. SDJA Students open up about their “quaran-cation”Īlong with the rapid spread of COVID-19 comes the need for adaptation.
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