CORONA LOCKDOWN: CREATING NEW HORIZONS FOR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TO TEACH

Educational institutions are shutdown across the world due to Covid-19. Covid-19 has made every house a school and every guardian a teacher. There is hardly any control over a structured learning environment at home. Most of the school teachers are conducting classes either through video apps, online or other various e-learning sources. These are the external signs of paradigm shift in teaching learning styles. Many rural schools and the parents are devoid of facilities as much as the well e-equipped, e-friendly teachers of town schools. Teachers homes have become staff rooms, libraries, labs, playgrounds, assembly grounds and thus their homes have become a place for live telecast studios. Ample time is allotted by the teachers to prepare their lessons. Self preparations and wider discussions with their colleagues are leading them to be creative professional learners to teach skillfully. Keeping these aspects in mind, the scholar extensively discusses different nuances, which empowers teachers at home to be professional and creative. The scholar has focused central issues like crisis, method of crisis management, plans for continuity of teaching–learning skills, impact of pandemic lockdown, dreaming by teens for new milestones, role of teachers in the promotion of health education and time for deeper introspection.