The pandemic made it impossible to create a fully interactive kindergarten environment, which may negatively impact some children’s learning in later grades, experts warn.
A study of students across Canada between 2004 and 2015 provides an estimate of anxiety symptoms in kindergarteners, and can serve as a baseline for comparing children’s anxiety after COVID-19, writes researchers Caroline Reid-Westoby and Magdalena Janus.
Kindergarten educators who taught from home during COVID-19 and who were primarily responsible for their own children self-reported poorer mental health than those without these responsibilities.
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