“The Students in the Window” Poetry and Prose from the Pandemic
Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse - Nancy S. Gorrell
Nancy S. Gorrell [+]
English teacher and poet
Nancy S. Gorrell is an award-winning English teacher, author, and poet. Her previously published book (with Erin Colfax) in this series is Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science: A Teacher’s Guide to Scientific Literacy ad Poetic Response (Equinox, 2012). She is currently Director of the SSBJCC Holocaust Memorial and Education Center Survivor Registry, Bridgewater, NJ.
Description
The Epilogue addresses the radical changes in education which were brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, including a new kind of window on education: that of virtual learning. Students’ poetry and prose from the pandemic written is featured, followed by a look at a teaching collaboration involving a Inside Looking Out / Outside Looking In exercise in which most students wrote about “windows of memory” that helped them escape the stark realities of the pandemic.