Share Paper: School After COVID: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Gained

  1. Kerry Rice, Boise State University, United States

Abstract: The coronavirus pandemic disrupted education in ways no one could have imagined. Some have suggested that this crisis will change our educational systems in a permanent way. My hope is that it will change for the better. Perhaps it is the forced change that we needed to move away from antiquated systems that rely on ways of teaching and assessment of learning that don’t necessarily serve the needs of the most important stakeholder, the learner. Remote learning forced a shift in mindset and perspective and an understanding that it’s effectiveness depended on student-centered instructional approaches that rely more on mastery ...