Listen to teacher Dwayne C. Cobham — a first-generation Panamanian American born in Brooklyn, New York — talk about teaching ST.E.A.M. remotely to special needs students during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. In 2020 he was a head science teacher and he met on Zoom with his Teaching Assistant and teachers in his school. He often spent his lunch break on Zoom with students and with their parents in the background. He describes how on Zoom some students played with the mute-button and bombed the chat with gibberish and tilted their cameras up to the ceiling in defiance of keeping their cameras on. In 2021 he worked in-person at another school and his workdays started at 5pm and ended at 9pm. He began teaching all of the subjects — English, math, social studies, science, and engineering to students with spec ...