Design Remote Lessons
Your class. Your content. Your community.
Your class. Your content. Your community.
You know it best.
You know it best.
Dr Trust says: "Please don’t feel like you need to completely revamp your teaching or redesign your lessons or use all of the tools in this slide deck. It’s meant to serve as inspiration for you to be creative given the challenges of remote/online teaching."
Although there's no one-size-fits-all pathway to supporting learners and teachers in the weeks and months ahead, these seven steps can help you get a head-start.
An instructional coach experiencing long-term school closures in Washington state shares encouraging words for fellow educators grappling with the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and their own emotions.
Considerations
Considerations
- Give no new content at first
- Make instructions simple
- Establish one digital "home base"
- Lighting & Eye Contact are key
- Use Polls & Games to Engage
- Avoid recording long lectures for students to listen to
- Record lessons for those who can't tune in live
- Longer-term projects need many check-points (example project here)
- Students crave communication "touch points" & routines
- Create socio-emotional checkins
- You’re probably going to feel like a first-year teacher again
- We're all in this together
Lesson Templates
Lesson Templates
Credit: Coach Stenzhorn, @motechteacher
Credit: Catlin Tucker, @Catlin_Tucker