FOR ALL TEACHERS

• Read your district email.
• Less is more. Use a few tools well and consistently.
• Stay in touch with your "team."
• Don't try to solve all problems yourself.
  • Student/parent problems? Contact your principal or counselor.
  • Instructional or content problems? Contact your school librarian or curriculum director.
  • Technical problems? Contact the Technology Help Desk at Email: helpdesk@norman.k12.ok.us or Phone: (405) 366-0536

GENERAL EXPECTATIONS PreK-12

• Activities can be provided through our existing, online subscriptions and textbooks and communicated through email, Google Classroom or Seesaw.
  • Opportunity to Co-Teach: Multiple teachers may share a Google Classroom. A grade level or content team may share a Google Classroom and offer different times for Google Hangouts allowing students to join during the most convenient time.
• Begin posts & emails with a warm and friendly introduction (video greetings or flipped video lessons are encouraged). Loss of face-to-face contact for an extended period can be an issue for some students.
• Be flexible, responsive and positive. Students will be affected by the closure in different ways.
• NPS can provide workbooks or packets of activities to students lacking internet access and/or devices at home. This includes making copies and mailing materials to student’s homes.
• If a student has difficulty accessing your Google Classroom/Seesaw, the teacher will need to support the student/family via email or phone. The NPS Technology Help Desk number is 405-366-0536.
• Where possible we encourage online group conversations (Google Hangouts Meet).
• Maintain regular communication with families (eg Grade Level News, etc.).
• Maintain regular communication with your evaluator/principal (using their guidelines) to share what learning activities you are providing for your students.
• Teachers have a responsibility to set office hours while being flexible with individual family/student needs.
• Teachers need to check emails/messages at least twice daily (once in the morning & once in the afternoon) Monday - Friday.

Best Practice for Difficult Times:

Read this article from Teaching Tolerance: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus

• Communicate
• Establish a consistent routine
• Build opportunities for connectedness
• Relationships and building a sense of safety are the priority
• Maintain a sense of hope

Four Core Priorities for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning

Read: VIDEO/LIVE STREAMING GUIDANCE in this document.

Engagement Strategies:

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• Personalize: Explain the purpose, goals, and relevance of a lesson, and help students understand how this content, process, and skill can help them now and in the future.
• Provide Feedback often, including peer feedback when appropriate. Feedback can occur through Google Docs, Google Classroom, Flipgrid, Wakelet, Hangouts Meet, etc.
• Encourage student voice & choice and give students options for some assignments and activities. This encourages self-directed learning and ownership over the process. Choice menus and choice boards are common ways of providing choice.
• Provide Inquiry, PBL, & challenge projects which integrate short-term inquiry, problem-based learning, or challenge projects into your units.

Use Your Tools

• Use Chat in the online platform you are using (WebEx, Google Hangout Meet, Zoom)
• Use a Visual Icebreaker appropriate for your level: Share your favorite book, your favorite or least favorite food, your favorite color, most fun thing you did this week, favorite comic book or graphic novel, favorite movie.
• Use Google Classrooms and/or Docs
• Use videos or slides
• Use virtual tours
• Use TED talks
• Use podcasts
• Use books, short stories

Expectations for teachers and instruction

1. Attend online meetings with staff
   1. Faculty meetings
   2. Department or grade level meetings
   3. Professional development
2. Frequently communicate with students and parents: Be mindful that siblings and parents may be sharing a device.
   1. Establish consistent office hours
   2. Be responsive; answer within two days
   3. Use both asynchronous and synchronous online meetings
   4. Establish regular office hours; available during the regular school day
   5. Not expected to be online 24/7
3. Set clear expectations
   1. Provide a calendar schedule; no surprises at the last minute
   2. Articulate objectives, benchmarks, rubrics
4. Provide content and process standards
   1. Present clear goals and objectives
   2. Post essential and guiding questions
5. Be flexible and calm
   1. Remember that not all families are like yours
   2. Students may have limited or shared access to devices

Expectations for student participation

When having synchronous online meetings, set norms for your students.

You can brainstorm your class norms with your students. Here are some ideas to get you started:

1. Be present
2. Be on time.
3. Listen respectfully.
4. Wait your turn to talk or share.
5. Do not interrupt.
6. Pay attention to your surroundings when you get online.
7. Leave eating until later.
8. Keep distractions to a minimum. No paper rustling, talking to other people, or barking dogs!
9. Mute yourself when you are not speaking.
10. Dress appropriately.

Here are a few articles that might help you with your discussions:

• The 7 Rules of Virtual Meeting Etiquette Every Professional Should Know
• Etiquette Tips: How to Participate in an Online Meeting

• Check out Google's temporary hub: Teach from Home, a temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during this crisis. You’ll find resources to enable remote instruction, student engagement, collaboration with peers, and more

Google Meet for Staff Meetings

• Command D allows you to mute and unmute yourself
• Google Meet Training and Help
• Google Hangout Meets Tutorial(s)
• Setting up a Meet in Calendar (2:40)
• Setting up a Meet on the Mobile App (1:12)
• Live stream a Google Hangouts Meet (3:37). Set up a view only Meet for some or all participants.
• New Meet features (April 22nd): High-quality video sharing, tiled layout, low light adjustment, and noise cancellation

Google Meet for Meetings with Students

• Hangouts Meet improvements for remote learning
• The sessions can be recorded. They are saved to the teacher's Google Drive, and can be posted in Google Classroom (3:23).
• Teach students how to mute themselves, turn on captions, and use their avatar view. Students may want to use an avatar or bitmoji instead of a live view. Not all students will want to "share" their home with everyone.
• Use captions in a video meeting. Each participant can turn on live captioning for themself.
• Pin, mute, or remove Hangouts Meet participants. Teacher can mute students, and an individual student can mute and unmute themself. Students cannot mute each other.
• Google Meet and Classroom Together at Last (2:54). Add a Google Meet to your Google Classroom for office hours and class meetings.
• Broadcast your iPad screen in a Meet with the iOS app. When you present your screen with the app it displays the contents of your screen with your audio.
  • Share your iPhone/iPad Screen on Google Meet (1:56)
• Connect your iPad to your MacBook (1:31) and use a whiteboard app from the NPS iPad Portal in a Meet. With this method you can still see your participants as you present.

Zoom (for staff only)

• Zoom Help Center
• Joining a Zoom meeting
• Scheduling a Zoom Meeting through Zoom site
• Scheduling a Zoom meeting with Calendar- Zoom Chrome Extension
• All Zoom tutorials
• 10 Ways to Secure Zoom (infographic)
• How to Secure Your Zoom NPS Style

WebEx (for staff only)

• WebEx for Teachers
• All Webex tutorials
• Start or joining a meeting

Google Slides

• Live Q & A Session

Keynote Live

• Use Keynote Live to play your presentation over the Internet so everyone can view it at the same time.

Articles

• Tips for Creating an Engaging Asynchronous Online Learning Environment

Tools

Screencasting

• How to record the screen on your Mac using the built-in screen capture function. The screencast saves to your desktop as a .mov file.
• Screencast on an iPad.
• Screencast on your MacBook with QuickTime Player; Record your MacBook screen with a picture-in-a- picture.
• Use the Chrome extension Screencastify for short screencasts or to make animated gif screencasts.
• Use the Numbers iPad app as a whiteboard, and record a lesson.

Google Slides

• Using Google Slides for remote learning
• Publish a Google Slide as a web page/presentation.
• How to insert audio in Google Slides .
  • Use Online Voice Recorder to add your voice to Slides.

Keynote and PowerPoint

• Use Keynote Live: play your presentation over the Internet so everyone can view it at the same time
• Create narrated Keynote lecture movies, and upload to YouTube.
• Broadcast your PowerPoint presentation online using a (free) Microsoft account.

Google Sites web pages

Apple Professional Learning

SeeSaw: SeeSaw Help

Google Classroom

• How to Create a Classroom
• How to Add Students
• How to Post to the Stream
• How to Add Materials to the Classwork Page
• How to Create an Assignment in the Classwork Page
• How to Students Create Assignments
• How to Grade Assignments
• General Google Classroom Help
• NPS Google Classroom webpage
• Share to Classroom Extension (3:47)
• Differentiating in Google Classroom
• Classroom: Import grades from forms

• Resources for Learners
• Resources for Educators
• Overdrive/Sora Digital eBooks & AudioBooks
• Instructional Apps, Resources & Tools
  • Khan Academy Teacher Guide
  • Instructional Enhancement Videos
    • Edpuzzle
    • Padlet
    • FlipGrid
    • Newsela
    • CommonLit
• Norman Public Schools YouTube Channel: Innovate Your Classroom (40+ videos)
• NPS Instructional Services Help & Tutorials
  • Google Apps: Google Drive, Gmail & Calendar, Search, Docs, Slides, Forms & Sheets, Sites, Classroom, Drawings, Hangouts, Keep, Maps & Earth
  • Internet & Browsers
  • iPad
  • MacBook
  • Apps in District Kiosk
  • Keyboarding
  • Apple Resources Available to NPS Educators
    • 1:1 Virtual Support: Virtual one-on-one coaching sessions with Apple Professional Learning Specialists are available to help individual educators hone their approach to online student learning and workflows. To schedule a coaching session, educators should email appleprofessionallearning@apple.com to request a virtual coaching session.
    • Virtual Conferences: As a follow-up to the on-demand Apple Education Learning Series, educators can also participate in virtual conferences led by Apple Professional Learning Specialists. Visit the virtual conference schedule to find events in your time zone. Each virtual conference will run for approximately 30 minutes and will provide an opportunity for educators to engage in dialogue with our teams about the content provided in each video.
    • On-Demand Videos: The Apple Education Learning Series provides on-demand videos designed to help educators use Apple products and their built-in features to enable remote learning for all students. There are currently three videos in the series with more on the way.
      • Prepare Resources for Remote Learning
      • Create and Share Presentations and Demos
      • Create Engaging Videos with Clips
    • Online Forum Discussions: Educators can also chat online, ask questions, and get help from these Apple Education support communities:
      • Mac in Education
      • iPad in Education
      • iPhone in Education
    • AppleCare Support Phone Support: AppleCare experts are available to help educators and leaders with dedicated support. Connect with Apple Education phone support at 1-800-800-2775, option 3.