Remote Student Teaching

Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

When we switched to working and learning from home, I continued my student teaching placement and maintained frequent communication with my mentor teacher. My dedication to the students' education fueled my creativity for re-imagining what teaching means in the digital world. I created engaging and detailed lessons and videos that I sent to my students every week. My work was recognized as exemplary and was featured on the Civic and Community Engagement page on Buffalo State College's website. A few examples of my work are shown below.

Morning Messages

Every morning in my first grade student teaching placement, we would gather to the carpet and I would use the Smart Board to deliver the morning message. The morning message included the calendar, weather, math combinations to 30, poetry, and high frequency words. The students genuinely enjoyed this time together and it helped to get them ready for a day of learning. When we switched to asynchronous remote instruction, I delivered the morning messages by recording a video of myself and using a presentation. Below you will see an example of a morning message I sent to the students.

Read Alouds

As a way to keep in touch with my students while teaching remotely, I recorded read alouds and sent them through Class Dojo. Below is an example.

Flipgrid

While teaching remotely, I introduced a unit on geometry. After teaching about 2-D and 3-D shapes, I made a Flipgrid so that the students can show what they learned. Below is the web page with my written instructions as well as video instructions. You can also see the students video responses. Flipgrid has been a useful online tool for teachers and students while working from home.

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