Schools can sometimes face temporary closures due to health or environmental reasons. Plans are established and many elements used during regular classes to ensure you and your students are comfortable utilizing resources that are a part of the plan. On this page and others linked within, you will find best practices, resources, tutorials and additional information.
Together, we can accomplish great things. We are all here to support one another to ensure learning continues no matter the location.
The goal of Classroom to Cloud is to ensure learning continues in the event of school closure. The goal is to carry on learning, but not necessarily replicate a traditional school day as per the timetable. Students should be able to independently extend their learning with the direction of the teacher.
Preparing Lessons Independently or Collaboratively
Delivering and Supporting Learning
Engaging Students through Communication
Assessing Student Learning
Search for lesson plans for K-12
Non-content specific video based lessons for middle and high such as: interactive presentation about an assigned or chosen topic, infographic in Google Drawings, student portfolio with Google Sites to share knowledge, etc.
Locate and assign individual lessons in math, science, engineering, arts, humanities, computing, economics & finance, ELA, Test Prep, and College, Careers and More
Search for lesson plans for K-12. Great resource with video, interactive activities, handouts and more.
Each school has different online resources that have been purchased. Utilize these resources to support learning.
Students can access these resources and more by signing into Clever at https://clever.com/in/trussvillecityschools/ .
Screencastify allows you to record your screen as you talk, your web camera only, or both your screen and your web camera to create instructional videos that are automatically saved to your Google Drive and then can easily be shared in Google Classroom. All faculty and staff now have Screencastify Premium which will allow you to record longer than 5 minute lessons and edit.
As you begin to think about utilizing Screencastify to enhance your instruction, there are some important tips to keep in mind regarding showing professionalism in an online setting. Please take a minute to read through these tips to help you ensure that your video will be effective and appropriate for your students.
Obtain principal's approval before using. If you have been given permission to host a Zoom meeting with one or more students, you must follow the settings guidelines listed below. If you have any questions, contact April Chamberlain or Ashley Waring before using with students. Click the Zoom Meeting Settings link for full size directions.
Below are five practices we are asking our TCS teachers to follow when posting in Google Classroom:
In Google Classroom, teachers have three options when posting an assignment with an attachment. When creating a post, the teacher can select for the students to:
File
Drive
If you attach a Google Forms quiz and there’s no other attachment with the assignment, grades can be imported directly to the Student Work page.
YouTube
To search for a video to attach:
Link
Google Classroom allows teachers to further organize the Classwork Stream with the use of topics. Topics can be assigned to each post and used to filter the Classwork for students and teachers. During this time of remote learning, using topics with the dates each week would be helpful to your students.
Students only see topics with published posts.
You can see all your posts for a topic and quickly move between topics with the topic filters.
Remember, if a student is using a chromebook or logged into the Chrome browser, they have access to all the features of Read and Write for Google.
Text to Speech, Hover Speech, Talking and Picture Dictionary, Word Prediction, Translator, Highlights, Talk & Type, Simply on web pages to remove the clutter, screen masking to tint your screen and provides a spotlight that follows your mouse pointer, Practice reading aloud, and more.
Read and Write for Google How to Guide for Students
Read and Write for Google Quick Reference Guide explaining all the features
Google Voice is an option for teachers to use so that a personal cell phone number is not shared, but teachers in Trussville have to use a personal email as it costs to use the Trussville Google account. You can also use *67 and the call will show up as an unlisted number.
Google Classroom
Google Slides