Introduction
Introduction
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LESS IS MORE! No matter how strong the urge is to give the normal amount of work to your students during remote learning, DON'T. The key to a successful online experience is to use the K.I.S.S. method (Keep it Simple Smarty) and to be consistent.
Best Practices
Best Practices
Centralize Your Content
Regardless of the variety of sites you may be using with your students (Class Dojo and Lalilo for the littles, Quizzizz or StudySync for the older students), it is essential that you post links to these sites in one central location for easy access.
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Explicit Directions Are a Must
When we create content, it makes sense in our own heads. We must remember to be detailed and explicit in our instructions for students (and/or parents) to be able to understand the expectations.
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Track Student Progress
Regardless of any grading that is or is not being done, tracking student progress and giving feedback are important. Click below for some tips on how to streamline this process.
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Resources
Resources
Feel free to use any of these resources to help your teachers/school/district in organizing digital content in ways that best suit the needs of your students during a period of distance learning. Each template, document, or presentation you find below can be copied and used for your own purposes with original credit attributed.
Teach From Home
Teach From Home
Here you will find a temporary hub of information and tools from Google to help teachers during the COVID-19 crisis.
Schoology 101: How to Organize Your Courses for a Successful School Year
Schoology 101: How to Organize Your Courses for a Successful School Year
In this post, we are going to discuss the benefits of Schoology course organization as well as some tups and trick to getting this done the right way.
Our Best Tips for Organizing Distance Learning-Lalilo Blog
Our Best Tips for Organizing Distance Learning-Lalilo Blog
This is a strange time for educators. Are you feeling overwhelmed? Not sure where to start? I've been thinking a lot about how this situation is actually very similar to the beginning of the school year. So it seems appropriate to operate similarly. The focus right now should be designing your online classroom systems.
Home Page from Three Rivers' Distance Learning Site for Educators
Home Page from Three Rivers' Distance Learning Site for Educators
Home Page from Little Miami's Distance Learning Site for Educators
Home Page from Little Miami's Distance Learning Site for Educators
Teacher Training
Teacher Training
Check out the free training we offer to prepare your staff for organizing their digital instruction.
Google Classroom: The Ins and Outs
Google Classroom: The Ins and Outs
Click here to register and watch the recorded webinar.
Low Tech Tips
Low Tech Tips
Printed Packets
Printed Packets
If collecting work to be copied from multiple teachers, set up a central "drop off" - this can be a physical place for the actual papers to be dropped off or a single digital folder for each student (upper levels), or each teacher's students or each grade level (lower levels), if the work is uniform. K.I.S.S. - one drop off spot or the other, not both.
USB/Flash drive
USB/Flash drive
When collecting items to be put on a flash drive for students, follow the same idea as for collecting paper work - one digital folder for each student's work (upper levels), or for each teacher's students or grade level (lower levels), if the work is uniform across the gamut.
Special Delivery
Special Delivery
Once you have printed the paper packets and copied files to the flash drives, have bus drivers drive their bus routes to drop off the students' work. A teacher and/or administrator can ride along to be the one who delivers the package. Again, K.I.S.S. - same day each week, pick up the completed work, drop off the new work.
Things to Consider
Things to Consider
Communicate Your Plan BEFORE Distance Learning is Re-Implemented
Communicate Your Plan BEFORE Distance Learning is Re-Implemented
Many of us learned how to fly the plane while it was in the air during COVID-19. Now that we have survived that experience, it's time to not only create a Communications Plan, but also communicate it to staff and families BEFORE another distance learning need arises.
Adaptability is Key
Adaptability is Key
Teachers may already have an organization system based on face-to-face classroom learning. This may include copying content from archived courses in their LMS. Teachers may need to rethink previous organization setups and reconfigure for distance learning.
Life Happens
Life Happens
Remember that everyone will reach a level of stress at various points and may need reminders about how to do [a task] or where to look [for content]. Keep lines of communication open on all fronts. Best Practices for Communication can be found on the Communication page.
Less is More
Less is More
Remember, in a digital learning scenario, less is more. This includes the amount of content you are giving to students and expecting them to complete. Typically, it will take a student 3x as long to complete work as it takes you. So, if you are giving them "30 minutes" of work, is this "30 teacher minutes" or "30 student minutes"?
District leaders may be interested in coordinating the organization of digital instruction efforts with these three areas: accommodations, how to support elementary students and teachers, and how to address inequities.
Bright Spots
Bright Spots
Specials teachers, grades 1-6, have consolidated their content within each building. At the 1-2 primary schools (Maineville and Butlerville), the art, music, gym, STEM teachers and librarian post their content on Schoology on individual content pages inside a single "Specials" folder in the "Week of..." folder. At the Intermediate School, they put content on a BINGO board.
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