Lockdown in France: coronavirus rewrites the teaching playbook

Detemple giving English online lessons from her home in Montrouge near Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) spread in France. As she swaps the whiteboard for a webcam, the pandemic sweeping Europe is forcing Detemple, who teaches at EIB, to rethink how she holds her classes. — Reuters

PARIS: English teacher Carole Detemple had three days to tear up the teaching playbook as she knew it and create a virtual classroom in which to educate pupils confined to their Paris apartments by the coronavirus.

As she swaps the whiteboard for a webcam, the pandemic sweeping Europe is forcing Detemple, who teaches at the International Bilingual School (EIB), to rethink how she holds her classes.