Building Classroom Community During Covid

Darby discusses the importance of connection with students for learning to occur, and offers strategies for communication during remote teaching. These include:

• Setting time for interactions and honoring your schedule

• Creating short, authentic videos

• Communicating your intentionality plainly

The crux of this conversation is that our relationship to our students matters just as much as - if not more - than the content of our courses.

Transcript available at this link.

“I found it fairly easy to transition to Zoom discussions, and because I’ve always required students to post their responses and creative work for all to read…, I [instead] worked hard on creating relationships. Students want to be seen, to know that we care about them, to be reminded that we understand that they’re struggling.”