The Teacher's Toolkit for Distance instruction

Distance Teaching for K12-Introduction

Making an effective transition from the brick-and-mortar classroom to the virtual classroom has brought a whole series of new challenges.

To be effective, online instruction must be highly interactive! This can be done with technology tools
such as Edpuzzle or Nearpod, or even simply adding frequent stopping points with problem solving
on an accompanying worksheet

A video or Zoom lesson which is simply a one-way monologue does not work or hold students' attention. In the end it doesn't matter what the teacher does, only what the student does.

In the physical classroom, we can:

• monitor student attention

• throw out questions and respond to them

• have students do active learning procedures such as turn-and-talk and think-pair-share

• guide student practice and project work while we circulate around the room

• give targeted assistance

• check for understanding

• answer questions about homework or projects

How do we make this interaction happen in the online environment?