ABSTRACT This essay examines teaching failure in the context of COVID-19. It uses autoethnography to convey and explore the impact the pandemic has on teaching, as situated against and within my life-long dream to be a teacher. I explore four performances as a teacher that resulted from the transition at my institution from on the ground to fully remote instruction. Overall, I consider the ways COVID-19 has disrupted what it means to participate in communication instruction and to be a teacher, more generally.

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锚定：调和 COVID-19 中的教学梦想

摘要 本文探讨了 COVID-19 背景下的教学失败。它使用自我民族志来传达和探索大流行对教学的影响，这与我成为教师的毕生梦想背道而驰。作为一名教师，我探索了在我的机构从实地教学过渡到完全远程教学所产生的四项表演。总的来说，我认为 COVID-19 扰乱了参与交流教学和成为一名教师的意义，更广泛地说。