Calgary area educators mentally and physically exhausted from teaching during pandemic
CBC News sent a questionnaire to thousands of education professionals to find out how they and their students are doing in this extraordinary school year. Nearly 9,500 responded. More than 2,100 of them were from the Calgary region.
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With all K-12 students learning from home as of Friday, educators hope more than a year of on and off online instruction since the start of the pandemic will make the next three weeks a little more seamless.
Students in the early grades will spend anywhere between 30 minutes to three hours online in front of teachers, in addition to doing assigned work focusing on numeracy and literacy with the option to check back with teachers throughout the day.
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