Affiliation:
1. William Paterson University, USA
Abstract
This chapter is an informal study of the strategies used by a professor to support graduate students working in the field as teachers of students with disabilities in the virtual environment. The author discusses the use of self-care in graduate thesis classes over a four-year period both prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as thesis writing support, periodic phone calls (including FaceTime), and individual Zoom meetings in addition to Zoom class meetings and multiple emails lending support to individual students.
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