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PAE finds a path through the pandemic

December 17, 2020 by Jill Gorneau

The Portland Phoenix recently published this article about PAE classes during the pandemic:

For Gail Burnett, who teaches English as a second language at Portland Adult Education, communication with her students was already sometimes difficult before the coronavirus pandemic.

Relying entirely on virtual learning has made the language barrier more pronounced.

“At the beginning of the semester, I had students who I had never met. I have students who I’ve never seen in the flesh,” Burnett said last week. “At one point I said ‘look at the bottom of the screen,’ and after a while (a student) said, ‘what’s a screen?’”

Read the full article here.

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