thehill.com BY LEXI LONAS
Pandemic learning loss has impacted students’ basic developmental skills, ranging from sharing to using scissors, raising the stakes for using the summer months to help make up the gap.
In this week’s Education Week State of Teaching survey, most pre-K through third-grade teachers said that, compared to five years ago, their students had more difficulties listening, getting along with others and using pencils.
Experts say it is important parents use the time over the summer to be hands-on with their children’s activities and be sure to prep them with the tools to have successful interactions with their peers.
“It definitely doesn’t surprise me. I think that we all anticipated that the pandemic would have implications far beyond lockdown for not only young children, but all children,” said Khy Sline, KinderCare supervisor of curriculum development and education programs, who bemoaned “losing that much time of connection while we were locked down and spending time primarily in our homes and just not necessarily having the same experiences and exposures to other children.”
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