Morningside University professor speaks up about trying times during the peak of COVID-19.
Teachers all around had to make adjustment when the Coronavirus hit. Professor Ross Fuglsang was one of them.
Fuglsang has been teaching for 25 years and stated this [COVID-19 year] was one of the hardest. “Spring was a totally new territory.” Fuglsang stated.
Going completely online meant recording lectures, videos and reporting to zoom classes.
Although an unfamiliar territory, Fuglsang felt as if the school had properly prepared the faculty. The school gave extra funds to teachers to make sure they had all of their classes planned out. They also had workshops and meetings along with the extra funds. Fuglsang said that “Faculty helped out other faculty and they even had sign-ups for people that had expertises in different areas and could help other teachers out.”
Fuglsang is excited to get back to the normal routines of college education. “It’s nice that students can sit in the same room and get to know each other.” he stated.
After an exhausting year last year, it feels as if this year is a lot more relaxed Fuglsang added.
This is pretty good, Carlie, but I like the last sentence as a potential lead. It may not focus on last year, which is what I asked you all to do, but it could with some tweaking:
After an exhausting COVID year, Prof. Ross Fuglsang is ready for something more “relaxed.”
Then: Fuglsang has been teaching for 25 years but stated spring 2020 “was a totally new territory.”
( I’ve been teaching more than 25 years; 25 at M’Side.)