Students at different grade levels form unique relationships with their teachers and learn through varied instruction. Right now, teachers across the board have to modify their usual techniques and teachings to fit a distance-learning mold.
Dadeville High School teacher Wes Talton already had an online element to his classes but he’s now working with an intensified format.
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