Learn More About Part 2: Delivering Instruction

Also Keep These Details in Mind...

Remote Learning Model

How you deliver instruction will largely depend on the Remote Learning Model your district is implementing. 

Synchronous instruction refers to students connecting to live instruction from home. That could occur while the teacher simultaneously has students in front of her in the classroom or with all students online. 

Asynchronous instruction requires that students access instructional materials (online or offline) without the teacher.

Time on Task

Regardless of Remote Learning Model (synchronous or asynchronous), the general rule of thumb is that students will have a hard time attending to Instruction that last longer in minutes than they are years old.  Hence, we can expect a 10 year old to engage with instruction that lasts up to around 10 minutes. If your learning objective is not able to be full addressed in that amount of time, it is recommended that you further break the objective down into component parts (i.e., chunking).

Modeling

It is important that good Instruction is still good instruction in a Remote Learning context. We want to include a student-friendly explanation of the learning objective and also model its application. One research-based modeling strategy is talking through examples and non-examples.

In the Math classroom, for example, modeling might look like the teacher talking through the thinking process when applying the specific skill addressed and also providing a non-example identifying a common mistake students might make.

Or in the Social Studies classroom, modeling might look like defining key terms (e.g., Systems of Government) and talking through examples and non-examples (e.g., why the USA is an example of a representative democracy and not an oligarchy).