Online Learning during Pandemic

　　by Peter Paul Gabato

　　On March 11, 2019, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 as pandemic. This resulted to increasing number of schools and universities across the world looking for an alternative education. With the help of technology and internet, online learning became the best  option to offer since teachers and students are in different places of the world fighting for this unseen enemy. The school greatly believe on the importance of education so we can’t afford any delay of important learning to inculcate with the students. This time, the Zhumu (online learning app) is our virtual classroom which is different from the usual setting. This new virtual classroom provides advantages as well as challenges that requires  extra hard work. 

　　Students are used to learning in a typical classroom, so it is very important to remember three qualities to help this online learning successful. These are optimism, self determination and self discipline. Optimism is defined to have confidence about successful outcome of something. This attitude prepares students on achieving their goal. Difficulties may arise but an optimistic student will always be confident to overcome them. Another good attitude is self determination. This is an ability to manage something personally. Since online learning happens at home, the student does every required work independently. With self determination, a student develops her/his own motivation to solve any problem. The third quality mentioned earlier is the self discipline. Learning at home is surrounded with some temptations such as video games, sleep and cellphone. Self discipline is a self control which is a sign of inner strength. This quality helps students overcome the temptations and stick to the Parents play an important role in ensuring the preparedness of their child in this online learning. 

　　The support to their child is a good factor to equip them with motivation and good qualities mentioned above. Parents who support their children is a very good asset of the school as they help in moulding their child with good qualities required to be successful someday.

　　 For about two months, both students and teachers experienced some adjustments. Even teachers had a shift of mindset in order to become optimistic on the different challenges in providing quality education. As a Mathematics teacher, worries came into my mind on the possible outcome of the online learning. Preparing online lessons is a struggle of an online teacher. It consumes a lot of time than the actual teaching. But one goal should be always remembered, educate. 

　　The support of the school’s administration greatly affect the success of the online learning. From organized online meetings to different suggested modern apps, the process becomes much easier to both students and teachers. The constant communication about strengths and weaknesses resulted to a better learning process. With this, surely our ultimate goal for good education will definitely be achieved. 

　　疫情期間的網(wǎng)絡(luò)學(xué)習(xí)

　　2019年3月11日，世界衛(wèi)生組織宣布新型冠狀病毒大流行。這也導(dǎo)致世界范圍內(nèi)無數(shù)的學(xué)校及大學(xué)需要尋找新的教育模式。得益于網(wǎng)絡(luò)技術(shù)，在我們對抗這個(gè)“無形的敵人”的同時(shí)，在線學(xué)習(xí)也成為了身處異地的老師和學(xué)生們最好的選擇。北京市中關(guān)村外國語學(xué)校以教育為重，因此我們也及時(shí)帶領(lǐng)學(xué)生開展了網(wǎng)絡(luò)學(xué)習(xí)。通過”矚目“（一款在線會(huì)議視頻軟件），我們感受到了全新的學(xué)習(xí)方式帶來的益處和挑戰(zhàn)。

　　學(xué)生們已經(jīng)習(xí)慣于傳統(tǒng)的教室上課模式，所以網(wǎng)絡(luò)學(xué)習(xí)需要額外提醒學(xué)生注意三點(diǎn)：樂觀，自覺和自律。樂觀是我們對于一件事情的結(jié)果抱有積極態(tài)度，這種態(tài)度能夠幫助學(xué)生實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)；而自覺，是一種能夠安排好個(gè)人生活學(xué)習(xí)娛樂等各項(xiàng)事情的能力。學(xué)生在家進(jìn)行在線學(xué)習(xí)，每個(gè)人都是獨(dú)立的自己安排自己的學(xué)習(xí)生活，自覺性強(qiáng)的學(xué)生，則能夠應(yīng)對好在線學(xué)習(xí)期間的諸多問題；前面提到的第三個(gè)重要品質(zhì)是自律，自律是一種內(nèi)在自我控制的能力，是一種能夠克服誘惑并堅(jiān)持學(xué)習(xí)目標(biāo)的重要品質(zhì)。在家學(xué)習(xí)要面臨觸手可及的電子游戲和手機(jī)、以及一些如賴床這樣的不良習(xí)慣的考驗(yàn)，因此自律也是尤為重要的。

　　家長在學(xué)生們準(zhǔn)備網(wǎng)絡(luò)學(xué)習(xí)的過程中也起到非常重要的作用。家長們要鼓勵(lì)自己的孩子，給他動(dòng)力，并幫助他保持樂觀，自覺和自律。家長們的這些幫助會(huì)使得學(xué)校在教育學(xué)生時(shí)”如虎添翼“， 因?yàn)槟鸀楹⒆铀茉斓倪@些優(yōu)良品質(zhì)會(huì)助力孩子未來的成功。

　　在開啟在線學(xué)習(xí)的兩個(gè)多月的時(shí)間里，學(xué)生和老師都經(jīng)歷了一些調(diào)整。每位老師為了保證教學(xué)質(zhì)量需要轉(zhuǎn)變觀念并積極的應(yīng)對新的挑戰(zhàn)。作為一名數(shù)學(xué)老師，我最擔(dān)心的是在線教學(xué)的效果。在線授課的備課是一件不輕松的事情，花費(fèi)的時(shí)間也遠(yuǎn)多于實(shí)體教學(xué)備課所需要的時(shí)間。

　　我校在線學(xué)習(xí)開展得如此順利也要感謝行政人員的支持和幫助，從組織線上會(huì)議到商討并試驗(yàn)適合學(xué)生和老師們的應(yīng)用軟件，通過一次又一次的商討比較，最終選出了能讓我們順利學(xué)習(xí)的平臺(tái)。正因如此，我堅(jiān)信我們優(yōu)質(zhì)的教學(xué)目標(biāo)定會(huì)實(shí)現(xiàn)。

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