Hybrid Sandwich

What is it?

Okay, so this one isn't really a *thing* that's out there (yet!). It's more of a combination of some of the other hybrid models. After Monday's check-in meeting, you'll do a hybrid sandwich: you sandwich your in-class learning with asynchronous activities.

So your week would go like this:

Monday

Overview your week
Q & A
Goal setting
Organization

BEFORE you see me

Push out an asynchronous assignment. You might ask students to:

Watch a video-based instruction via EdPuzzle
Explore a teacher-curated resource hyperdoc
Read and take notes
Listen to a podcast
Engage in an online asynchronous discussion via Schoology or Flipgrid
Practice and Review
Student-generated research
Reflect and document learning

WHEN you see me

Everyone will see you at some point during the week. Make the most of that small-group instruction! You'll need to touch base with your full-remote students to ensure they know to meet with you during the afternoon sessions. This might include:

Digging deeper into the pre-work
Community-building
Modeling
Conferencing
Real-time conversations
Collaborating
Presenting

AFTER you see me

If you can't help but to move sequentially, here's where students process the information you've presented throughout the week (or weeks).

Group collaboration
Project creation
Essay writing
Reflection
Practice
Assessment

Sample Agendas and Template

Benefits and challenges

benefits

It's simple. In this plan, it's easy to see how we're not increasing our preps; we're just structuring activities differently.
It embraces asynchronous instruction. This model pushes out non-teacher-centered work much like a flipped classroom.
It makes the most of in-person instruction. This model does not have you simultaneously Zoom-in your at-home learners. You focus on the people in front of you and give others a clear system to ask questions and engage.

Challenges

In a nutshell, the challenge with this model is pacing. We'll explore some options that allow for self-pacing, but here, the pacing is determined by class period and cohort.
- Your B cohort 8th hour students get three days to do their pre-work, but then might need to turn around their post-class work over the weekend. Your 1st hour A cohort only gets a day to work on their pre-work (after what we know can be a taxing Monday).
Our advice is to consider having roughly an hour of pre-work, an hour of in-class work, and an hour of post-class work. To be flexible when you can with due dates, uncoupling assignments from a set structure whenever possible.
And, it inevitably requires significant cuts to curriculum.

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