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It’s Hard to Focus on the Content Knowledge: Understanding a Doctoral Student Instructor’s Emotional Challenges of Teaching Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Chapter Title

It’s Hard to Focus on the Content Knowledge: Understanding a Doctoral Student Instructor’s Emotional Challenges of Teaching Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Book Title

Science Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tales from the Front Lines

Chapter Author(s)

Qiu Zhong, Tulana Ariyaratne, Jing Yang, Shukufe Rahman, Valarie Akerson

Editors

Dr. Valarie L. Akerson, Dr. Ingrid S. Carter

ISBN

978-1-952092-21-3

Pages

93-116

Highlights

  • The doctoral student instructor being studied encountered many emotional challenges teaching during the pandemic.
  • While needing emotional support for herself, the doctoral student instructor was also seeking strategies to support her students’ learning and well-being.
  • The doctoral student instructor experienced multiple identities, among which her identity as a student resulted in more empathy and compassion for her students.
  • The pandemic has amplified the need to build trustworthy relationships with students and offer them emotional support, which masked the curriculum goal to deliver science content knowledge.
  • Social injustices impacted both the instructor’s emotions and science teaching.

Citation

Zhong, Q., Ariyaratne, T., Yang, J., Rahman, S., & Akerson, V. (2021). It’s hard to focus on the content knowledge: Understanding a doctoral student instructor’s emotional challenges of teaching science during the COVID-19 pandemic. In V. L. Akerson & I. S. Carter (Eds.), Science Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tales from the Front Lines (pp. 93-116). ISTES Organization.

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