Teaching Online

Teaching During COVID-19

• Strategies

  • Teach From Home, information & tools for teachers, Google

  • TED-Ed@Home, with lessons and ability to customize your own lessons (section for students, parents), TEDEd

  • Get kids ready for online classes, Common Sense Media

  • What to think about when your school is closing due to coronavirus, NEA Today

  • Transitioning to online learning: Pro tips, ASCD Inservice

  • 10 strategies for online learning during a coronavirus outbreak, ISTE

  • Online classroom quick-start guide, La Canada Unified School District

  • Checklist for distance learning, with interactive/printable handouts, AFT

  • Tips and tools for teaching remotely, FreeTech4Teachers

  • Four Core Priorities for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning, MindShift, KQED

• Lessons, lesson plans

  • Ideas for children to learn at home, WeAreTeachers

  • Instructional continuity resources, San Diego Unified School District

  • At-Home Learning: Daily K-12 educational programming on PBS member TV stations throughout the state, with accompanying digital resources

  • Pre K-12 resources for emergency closings, PBS Learning Media

  • Teaching resources organized by grade level and subject

  • Free drawing lessons from famous artists, Fast Company

  • BrainPop: Coronavirus explainer video for kids

  • NPR: Just for Kids - a comic exploring the new coronavirus

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• Resources & advice

  • Resources for online learning during school closures, NEA Today

  • Digital learning advice from NEA's Education Policy & Practice division, NEA (scroll to end for resource links)

  • Resources for teaching & learning during this period of social distancing, Mind/Shift

  • Updated list of resources for educators, Amazing Educational Resources

  • 6 lessons learned about remote learning During the Coronavirus Outbreak, EdWeek

  • Collected resources during COVID-19 school closures, Wakelet

  • Coronavirus: Latest updates and tips (including Special Ed), Understood

  • Distance learning resources at the Smithsonian Institution, including STEM webcasts, American history podcasts and lesson plans.

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• Higher education

  • How to make online learning work, Wired

  • 8 tips for setting up and teaching online classes during coronavirus closures, Dylan McLemore

  • How to be a better online teacher, Chronicle of Higher Education

  • 7 guidelines for successful teaching online, Inside Higher Ed

  • Preparing for emergency online teaching, Chronicle of Higher Education

  • How to make your online pivot less brutal, Chronicle of Higher Education

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• Articles & information

  • How to talk to students about coronavirus, California Educator

  • How learning will change across California's K-12 schools amid coronavirus, EdSource

  • Remote learning takes stage amidst coronavirus concerns, CUE

  • Zoom CEO gives K-12 schools the videoconferencing tool for free, Forbes

  • Coronavirus special report, Chronicle of Higher Education