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Required Activities
Required Activities
Review at least 2 of the resources listed below.
Review recommendations for each subject area.
Providing Direct Instruction and Modeling
Providing Direct Instruction and Modeling
Everything You Need to know about Building a Great Screencast Video (Blog post from Cult of Pedagogy, April 2020). This is an interview with Kareem Farah of The Modern Classrooms Project, on strategies to create quality screencasts for students. The page also has the podcast episode embedded if you'd prefer to listen.
Facilitating Learning & Discussions
Facilitating Learning & Discussions
Mathematics
Mathematics
Instruction & Modeling
Instruction & Modeling
Be intentional about a balance between synchronous and asynchronous learning. Think of this as a Flipped Classroom, where students can watch a pre-recorded video on their own time, and use live class time for discussion and collaborative tasks.
Tips:
Give students opportunities to explore the math before having them watch any direct instruction video.
Instruction should begin with productive struggle and students making sense of the math through a numberless word problem, task, or time to explore.
Students individually watch pre-recorded videos for direct instruction mini-lessons.
Whole group live instruction should be reserved for warm-ups and collaborative tasks.
Support student needs in synchronous, small group instruction.
Students use actual or virtual manipulatives to explore and solve problems.
Teacher models with manipulatives to support student conceptual understanding.
Resources & Examples:
Discussion & Collaborative Tasks
Discussion & Collaborative Tasks
Give students opportunities to discuss their mathematical thinking through a variety of platforms.
Tips:
Include warm-ups to engage students in low-anxiety mathematical discourse, such as Number Talks, Notice/Wonder, and Which One Doesn’t Belong on Flipgrid, Seesaw, shared Google slide/doc/sheet.
Give students opportunities to share their strategies, after working through a problem with paper and pencil or digitally. In preparation to share their strategies, have students write to explain their thinking.
Have students think through and solve problems together, using collaborative slides, breakout rooms on Zoom, etc.
Resources & Examples:
Independent Practice
Independent Practice
Give students opportunities to practice skills, and to think about, write about, and talk about the math concepts being learned.
Tips:
Connect independent practice to ideas learned through the discussion, collaboration, and instruction.
Have students dig deeper into less problems.
Encourage them to use multiple strategies to solve the same problem.
Ask students to explain their thinking based on strategies for solving by writing or recording their voice.
Examples & Resources
English Language Arts with History-Social Studies and Social Emotional Learning Integration
English Language Arts with History-Social Studies and Social Emotional Learning Integration
Instruction & Modeling
Instruction & Modeling
Be intentional about a balance between synchronous and asynchronous learning.
Tips:
Determine what standards you can address in pre-recorded sessions and what content will be covered in live communication.
Consider what will be the best format for instruction and what will be the best format for modeling.
Plan what task students will accomplish on their own time, what platform will be used for collaborative tasks and how you plan to give feedback.
Resources:
Discussion & Collaborative Tasks
Discussion & Collaborative Tasks
Give students opportunities to discuss their thinking through a variety of platforms.
Tips:
Include discussion opportunities to engage in conversation about the Essential Questions and lesson objectives
Give students opportunities to share their thinking and perspective.
Have students think through and discuss their ideas in various formats like a Zoom Breakout or FlipGrid
Resources:
Independent Practice
Independent Practice
Give students opportunities to practice skills and concepts being practiced and taught. Use the “Read/ Respond/ Write” format provided by Benchmark. Provide opportunities to practice Foundational Skills.
Tips:
Connect independent practice to ideas learned through the discussion, collaboration, and instruction.
Focus on and practice Foundational Skills standards for the grade level.
Resources:
Science
Science
Instruction & Modeling
Instruction & Modeling
Provide students with opportunities to engage in the 5 E’s (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate) as well as direct instruction.
Elements:
Use the 5 E lesson design model when planning synchronous and asynchronous learning.
Create short, teacher directed videos (10 mins or less), or use Amplify slidedecks to add audio teacher instruction for experiences. This allows students to see and hear the content, and “engage” with you, as well as rewatch content if necessary.
Engage in the unit phenomena to inspire wonder in students. Supplement Amplify’s unit phenomena to make phenomena local.
Digitize Amplify student PDF notebook pages so students can participate in online simulations, read scientific texts, and engage in writing.
Use SVUSD’s Distance Learning Pacing Calendars and Overviews to help break down science instruction to 20-30 mins a day.
Provide a teacher led, digital video of all hands-on experiences and investigations for students to engage in. Don’t assume students will have access to any supplies at home.
Modify classroom routines within Amplify lessons using digital formats and teacher recorded demonstrations.
Resources & Examples:
Discussion & Collaborative Tasks
Discussion & Collaborative Tasks
Discussion and collaboration should highlight student understanding of the science content, be a place where students can voice discoveries, voice misconceptions, revise their initial ideas, and share conclusions based on evidence.
Elements:
Modify Amplify classroom discussions so they can be done in an asynchronous format or flipped format, through digital tools like: SeeSaw, Flipgrid, shared Google apps, Padlet, etc.
Have live classroom discussions using Zoom or Google Meet in small groups and whole groups.
Digitize Amplify student PDF notebook pages
Asynchronous collaboration can be done through Flipgrid, SeeSaw, or Padlet.
Resources & Examples:
Independent Practice
Independent Practice
Students can work independently when activities focus on the Science and Engineering Practices 4-8.
Elements:
Use Amplify simulation & modeling activities
Use Amplify scientific references and ereaders
Digitize Amplify student PDF notebook pages
Modify in-class modeling activities by making them digital through Google Drawings, etc.
Use platforms like Flipgrid and Padlet to ask students to respond independently
Provide the Amplify lessons in video or audio format so students can watch and review during independent work time.
Resources & Examples:
Module Assignment
Module Assignment
Complete one of the options below. When finished, copy your work into your portfolio for submission. (Here is how to create a portfolio.)
Option 1: Create a screencast to deliver a direct instruction mini-lesson of your choice. This should be no more than 5 minutes long, and should be something you would be able to use in your class next year, if necessary.
Option 2: Write a protocol for students to participate in an online collaborative discussion. Consider the platform you might be using, what expectations you will have of student answers, how to remind them of digital citizenship and class culture, and how you can provide options for all students.
Option 3: Complete this Exit Ticket.
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