Hi guys,
Just a quick question to the teachers - do you guys have to wear a mask if you teach?
If so, what is the prevalence and does it take away from being able to do your job?
I do not mind teaching with a mask - it just might take away from students being able to see how you pronounce certain words. At times I show the actions of my mouth when hoping to improve pronunciation.
Each school is probably different, but I believe masks are still mandatory to wear. I teach at a public school and I have to wear one to enter the school. They also check my temperature and spray my hands with alcohol. Once you get to the classroom/office they usually come off.
When I am teaching I almost always have it on. I do remove it if students are having a hard time pronouncing a word that way they can see my mouth, or like the past two weeks I didnāt wear my mask in 3 of my classes, because I was teaching about the mouth and teeth.
From what I noticed at my school wearing a mask hasnāt affected the students much.
Last semester was another story where masks were required and class wouldnāt start until everyone had one on.
Face to face āthā pronounciation is certainly done by now.
I have heard conflicting anecdotes about the masks.
I wear a mask in front of the kids because not all kids wear masks.
Thereās no telling of the heavy amount of germs that some of them
carry. But most of all you donāt want to be a risk to them either.
Kids are dirty creatures.
Iād wear a mask regardless of whether COVID existed.
In my uni classes, I usually pull my mask down when lecturing at the front of the class and put it back up when I go talk to a student one-on-one or walk between the desks.
At the height of the āscary stageā during Feb-April I wore it all class, but things are a bit more relaxed now.
Yeah, exactly the same.
For a number of months now Iāve been letting students make their own call on whether or not to wear a mask, although since last week Iāve been one bad-news story away from getting a lot more strict about it.