The Impact Of Covid-19 On The Preparation And Training Of Future Educators

The impact of covid-19 on the training and preparation of future educators is pretty significant, as those who have finished their training would have to adapt to online teaching and class and those who are still in their training would have it stopped for some time and moreover they wont have any practical experience. Below lists the impact of covid-19 in more detail:

1.Shift to online learning: From the above stated those who are still in their training would have to adapt to online classes and more over teaching in schools would have adapted and shifted to online teaching and methods, so they may have to learned more methods to adapt online learning. The methods and techniques they may have learned would be relevant in the future

2.Practical teaching: again from the above those those who are in their in their training wont have any practical teaching experience as the pandemic has limited and disrupted the practical teaching that is classroom observation ,teaching and so on. Practical teaching is a important and significant part of all educators and and pandemic has limited it 

3.adaptation to technological proficiency: Future Educators will have to be technologically proficient to engage and teach student online. This may lead them to learn new programs ,software , apps and so on but these new thing may help them the future

4.Delayed Graduation: Due to the delay in student-teaching caused by the pandemic it may have extended the time it would have taken for the future educators to graduate this may have led to more tuition fees and delay into workforce.

5.New education costs: As methods of teaching adapts to new technology and techniques, Future educators may have to invest themselves new professional development .This may involves them in taking new courses and classes to keep in track with the ever evolving methods of teaching.

Overall the pandemic has caused many problems that future educators faced including work problems financial problems, health problems and so on, But it also created many learning opportunities for the future educators .These new learning opportunities may help them solve new and specific problems they may solve.

                                                                         - S.Sarvesh VIII-A (8128)