{"id":2313,"date":"2020-04-20T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:17:18","slug":"transition-reposition-from-teaching-to-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/transition-reposition-from-teaching-to-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition & Reposition: From teaching to learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. LaShawn D. Nastvogel<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Monday, April 20, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor’s note: For many college faculty members, teaching online brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is a new frontier. Here is another essay from the frontlines.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By LaShawn D. Nastvogel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It came as a shock to us all when the university decided to end mid-term exams on Thursday before spring break. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My classes were fully prepared, confident and eager to take the exam so they could begin their spring break in mid-March.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I feel the university provided faculty and students with enough time to transition to remote teaching and learning, a task of this magnitude still had its challenges.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as an experienced user of the Blackboard and Echo platforms, the barriers to implementing a remote structure still surfaced: work-family balance conflicts, internet service, limited online ancillary materials and restructured practical course requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can say with confidence I have overcome many of these obstacles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of adjustments for the hands-on class, I have students write detailed descriptions of what is required for selected exercises; I have students develop and chart specific exercise protocols. During remote lectures, I have students answer polling questions about what they would do in certain situations as it relates to exercise prescription. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, my next challenge is learning how to transition from teaching college students to teaching a five-year-old about such concepts as digraphs – think \u201cph\u201d as in phone, consonant blends, glued sounds (letters that keep their individual sound but are \u201cglued\u201d together) and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, I do not recall any of these items from my elementary years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you imagine my frustration now? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find myself studying \u201cFundation<\/em>\u201d lessons before my son wakes up for his educational session with me.  How weird does that sound?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching my courses remotely is essentially not as bad as trying to simultaneously learn and teach five-years old their curriculum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the transition to online learning has its limitations, we must also respect and appreciate how we have been uniquely positioned to experience enhanced personal and professional growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am truly thankful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Nastvogel is an assistant professor in the Department of of Kinesiology who this semester is teaching Sport Psychology, Socio-cultural Analysis of Sport and Advanced Strength & Conditioning as well co-teaching a (senior-level) internship<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday, April 20, 2020 Editor’s note: For many college faculty members, teaching online brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is a new frontier. Here is another essay from the frontlines. By LaShawn D. Nastvogel It came as a shock to us all when the university decided to end mid-term exams on Thursday before spring break. …Read more Transition & Reposition: From teaching to learning<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}