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May 18, 2020Distance Learning with an ‘Animal Appeal’
When your class prepares you for a career in animal care, distance learning takes a different look.
That is quite evident in these photos from the Capital Region BOCES Pet Tech program where less humans were present as pets and animals.
Students from Guilderland, Schalmont, Scotia-Glenville, Cohoes, Mohonasen are seen here with their pets as they learn from Teacher Helen Thompson and Teacher Aide Helen Wos about animal care, etc.
Launched in 2018, the Pet Tech program teaches students basic care skills for animals, including grooming, washing and best practices for boarding. Students also learn about customer service, written and spoken communication, office and computer skills, phone etiquette, budgeting and money management, inventory and ordering, advertising, basic accounting and business math.
Pet Tech students – along with the more than 1,000 other Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical School students – have been learning remotely since in mid-March when the COVID19 pandemic forced schools to close across the United States.
Pet Tech students have mixed emotions about the new way of learning.
“I like to learn from home because I have a hard time learning around a big group of kids, but I miss being able to go to BOCES to be around all the animals and I miss grooming the various animals,” said Sabrina Taylor, who attends the program from the Guilderland schools.
