Distance Learning Support

1.5 hours

The UCI Teacher Academy has compiled a list of resources to support distance learning: https://teacheracademy.uci.edu/resources-for-remote-instruction/

Whether you are teaching in person, or through your computer screen, your UCI student teacher continues to learn from you and from interacting with students. While distance learning can not replace in person instruction, you've probably already noticed some similarities like:

  • building a positive classroom community is crucial to maintain student learning
  • the need to have a clear learning goal
  • monitoring student learning and checking for understanding
  • differentiation for students who need additional assistance
  • your students need opportunities to talk, engage and interact with each other

Here are a few ways your UCI student teacher can support student learning during distance learning.

Synchronous Instruction

    • Teach live lessons to whole class or small groups
    • Tutoring individual students or groups of students online
    • Support mentor teacher by monitoring the chat, taking attendance and gathering data on student participation
    • work with small groups in a breakout room
    • hold office hours

Communication with Families (only with mentor's approval)

    • Setting up online office hours on Zoom (for students or parents)
    • Phone calls home
    • Conferences with parents
    • Conferences with individual students
    • If appropriate, attend an IEP meeting

Examples of asynchronous instruction created by our student teachers last spring:

http://education.uci.edu/distance-learning-support-from-the-mat-community.html

Asynchronous Instruction

    • Putting together learning packets and searching for resources for students who need extra support (ELL, 504, IEP, GATE, Special Education)
    • Creating instructional videos based on need
    • Curating online resources/tools for a particular lesson or unit
    • Creating a demonstration of a lab
    • Conducting a reading of a text with discussion questions
    • Creating a GoogleSlide or PowerPoint screencast (with voiceover and opportunities for discussion or online responses to questions)
    • Creating a whole lesson on video

Planning and Assessment

    • Attend grade-level or department meetings
    • Professional development opportunities
    • Curriculum development efforts
    • Planning lessons and units
    • Assessing student work (packets, online simulations, formative data, etc.)
    • Finding and accessing online tools and resources (training students to use tools)
    • Reviewing and providing digital feedback on assignments and learning packets
    • Setting up and monitoring Google Classroom tools (or other digital learning platforms)
    • Gathering, recording, and analyzing data over time to share with mentor
    • Tracking student data
    • Grading student assignments