Class of 2020: The Seniors of the Pandemic
When Amber Frederick, a senior family science and human development major, left Brookdale Elementary School the Friday afternoon before her spring break began, she had no idea that her first real student-teaching experience would be coming to a sudden end. This was supposed to be Frederick’s first semester of her clinical experience; she was working in a fifth-grade classroom in Bloomfield, New Jersey, but due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, her firsthand experience of what it ...