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Lessons from COVID-19: Reflections on Teaching and Learning Remotely

Special Issue of Teaching Classical Languages

As the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced classes to move to “remote delivery,” students and teachers alike are fearful that both “Everything Will Change” and “Nothing Will Change.” For teachers concerned about the rise of online and distance education, this emergency foray into online teaching prefigures a turn to more permanent and widespread online delivery of coursework: everything will change. For underserved students for whom school serves as a safe place and provides the possibility for socio-economic mobility, the emphasis on technology in remote delivery reiterates geographic and class disparities: nothing will change.

The world over, we are hoping that we will emerge from this period somehow changed for the better: that we will learn lessons about what really matters and how better to do what matters most. We are concerned to make the best use of this bizarre opportunity to reconsider our lives, our priorities, our work, our teaching.

Teaching Classical Languages will devote its next issue (11.2) to essays and columns on lessons learned during the COVID-19-induced shift to remote instruction. These pieces should be reflections, thoughts, and opinions about teaching and learning classical languages during this time, but need not be full-length research articles. Pieces may engage a wide variety of topics: sharing distance teaching techniques; advocating or arguing for a position; relaying and reflecting on an anecdote.

Timeline:

  • Paper proposals / abstracts of up to 500 words will be accepted at tcleditor@camws.org until June 1, 2020. Submissions will be blind-reviewed by the Editorial Board of TCL, and authors of selected proposals will be informed soon thereafter.

  • Complete drafts of submissions will be due by August 3, 2020, to be followed by editing and proofing, with projected publication in Fall 2020.

Questions and inquiries may be directed to Yasuko Taoka, TCL Editor, at tcleditor@camws.org