An update on how Montessori Teacher Noemi Carmack is handling Social Distancing & Distance Learning
The Arlington County, VA school year is now in full swing and Mrs. Noemi Carmack is finally settling into her new distance learning routine.
A week before the official start of school, Carmack was stressed learning new technologies, creating material for her students, and planning her weekly & daily schedules.
Now four (4) weeks later, many of her most daunting issues/worries about the school year have been reduced to minor bumps in the road.
“I’m taking it one day at time”, Carmack says when asked about how she manages her time with so many tasks on her plate and families to connect with.
To help her relive her stress and anxiety she has taken up walking in the mornings to get her day started on the right foot.
Carmack also rearranged her home office in order to have a view of her neighborhood street and not a wall, “I can look at the sun and sometimes I watch people exercising, walking around because it helps break my vision of just the wall”.
Distance learning has also given her the ability to take advantage of her outside spaces at home, “I always take the time to sit outside when the weather is really nice, I sit outside for 10mins and breath while looking at the greenery around me”.
The future of the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning is still unclear, but Carmack says the original plan to begin the “Hybrid Learning” model in Jan 2021 has been moved up to begin on November 9, 2020.
The stress of setting up her classroom as been unexpectedly added to her plate a few months earlier than anticipated, however, the opportunity to see a handful of her students in person is exciting to Carmack and she welcomes this new phase of the school year.
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