Faculty members discuss effect of COVID-19 on education
Stephanie Jones, a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, and Hilary Hughes, an associate professor in the same department, participated in UGA’s Ask Me Anything series on Thursday, May 21.
The episode, titled “Teaching and Learning in a Time of the COVID-19 Crisis: Imagining What’s Next,” is part of a series of interactive online sessions between alumni and UGA faculty members from diverse academic disciplines.
Facilitated by Denise Spangler, dean of the Mary Frances Early College of Education, Hughes and Jones discussed their thoughts on how pre-K through 12th grade teaching has changed during COVID-19 and how it will continue to evolve in the future.
“For us, it’s about taking the time to rethink the education system and changing the way we approach education so that we are not creating a gap for our historically marginalized students,” Hughes said.