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It might be possible to wrap your head around the dramatic changes the airline industry faces to get planes with willing passengers back in the sky. Not so with schools. Cliches like the “new normal” just won’t work. We’re entering the “new abnormal.” COVID-19 means the actions schools take to reopen are exponentially more difficult. Kids don’t have to fly. They have to go to school.

Just what happens when school doors swing open (or not) next fall? No one knows for sure. Successive waves from the COVID-19 tsunami will inundate the myriad practices of education that define our American way of life.

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Studying English literature in its place of its origin – The University of Reading changed the perception of Kasturi Roy towards children’s literature. When a self-confessed book worm, Kolkata girl Kasturi Roy, 28, completed her Masters of Research with specialization in Children’s Literature from the University of Reading, her perception towards lierature changed. She never read books the way she read it before studying in the UK.

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“I was scared,” Cora said. “I’ve always been in and around Dene people, barely speaking English.”

Cora was raised by her grandparents, who only spoke Dene with her, and rarely travelled south to the city. So the prospect of moving south to Saskatoon or Regina for four years, as northerners had always been required to do in order to take a university program entirely in English, was too daunting. Learn more about this topic by reading in on NewsInteractives.

After nearly three months of remote learning, teachers are exhausted, isolated and deeply concerned about safety protocols for next fall, according to survey results released by the Alberta Teachers’ Association on Tuesday.

The ATA says that while teachers have been agile in their response to the COVID-19 crisis and the transition from in-class learning to online, the stresses of the pandemic have had a profound effect.

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The University of Calgary Teaching Awards recognize outstanding contributions to teaching and learning by individuals and teams, in categories including educational leadership, curriculum development, teaching online, team teaching and graduate supervision. The 2020 awards program received 54 nominations and has 20 award recipients.

As an initiative supported by Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Dru Marshall, the awards are as rigorous as they are prestigious. The Teaching Awards are determined by 10 adjudication committees comprised of 60 volunteers. Adjudicators are selected to balance academic discipline and gender on the committees. Volunteer adjudicators are asked to attend an orientation session to identify and address risk factors for implicit bias.

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Now more than ever, people who want to learn a new language turn to their mobile devices for help as language learning applications have become increasingly available. While these apps allow users to study a new language from anywhere at any time, how effective are they? That is a question Shawn Loewen, professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages at Michigan State University, is trying to answer. Learn more about this topic by reading in on ScienceDaily.

British Council has announced a scheme to part-fund one-on-one English lessons for 1 million learners across the globe. One million 30-minute private introductory sessions on their MyTutor video tutoring platform are being reduced to just SR5 ($1.33) to help learners prepare for IELTS exams during the lockdown. Learn more about this topic by reading in on Arabnews.

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Israeli method that teaches China English – Hebrew University artificial intelligence experts develop MagniLEARN for online personalized English lessons aimed at Chinese and Indian students. “How did you do on your Gaokao exams?” That phrase might not trip off the tongues of most Western students, but for high schoolers in China, it’s their key to acceptance into university – and to future success.

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As New Hampshire schools have restructured education over the past two months, one in particular has overhauled its approach altogether, offering tools and solutions to the challenges of remote learning that some parents say eased the transition. By thinking outside of the box – and the boundaries of a classroom – the administration and teaching team at Beech Street Elementary School in Manchester found a way for educators to teach all students in a grade level, rather than just those on their roll call. Combined with the school’s use of technology and its strategies to connect to families of all languages and backgrounds, Principal Katrina Esparza said these efforts have helped Beech Street work smarter, not harder, to benefit its 540 students. Learn more about this topic by reading in on Concordmonitor.