Qs: Due to the upheaval of education sector caused by COVID-19, how can a teacher develop a blueprint to work out the facets of imparting knowledge and maintaining relationships with different stakeholders in these changing scenarios? Also how can a teacher make a valid, timely, constructive and specific assessment of online teaching despite the disruption caused by COVID-19?
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Sometime in the second week of March, state governments across the country began shutting down schools and colleges temporarily as a measure to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. It’s close to a month and there is no certainty when they will reopen. This is a crucial time for the education sector—board examinations, nursery school admissions, entrance tests of various universities and competitive examinations, among others, are all held during this period. As the days pass by with no immediate solution to stop the outbreak of Covid-19, school and university closures will not only have a short-term impact on the continuity of learning for more than 285 million young learners in India but also engender far-reaching economic and societal consequences.