Motivating Instruction in Remote-Learning
Learning Targets * Feedback * Goal-Setting * Orchestrating a Lesson * Structured Interaction * Diversification and Choice
We have spent years as professionals learning how to make educational experiences count in our classrooms.
We use our voice, our eyes, our routines and our prepared materials to establish the direction that we are heading, to make clear why we are doing it, and to demonstrate how it will be done. Then we ask and answer a thousand questions as we guide students along the path that we have set them on.
SO MUCH of that was missing in our work last year. It hurt us and our students to not see or hear each other. How many situations and roadblocks are handled with just a look or a brief interaction over a document or project? In the online version, they just have the document.
Many students and parents reported feeling lost amidst a "pile of papers," plugging through worksheets and seemingly unrelated items towards an end that they couldn't fathom. They didn't know how to prioritize their assignments, and they often didn't even know where to begin.
If we are to reach more kids this year, we need to re-envision the delivery of our material, the types and amount of assignments we give, and the way in which we establish routine, provide context and give meaningful, actionable feedback. This page is an attempt to present strategies that have worked for others and that may work for you.
These are all new to most of us, but so are our courses for our students. They do it because they "have to."
Guess what...so do we.
Wherever you start, try to experience growth like we ask of our students.
You don't have to do all of it.
Try to find a few new approaches to what you already know how to do.
We know you are busy, but it is a long year and the time is now.
Thank you!
"It's Not going to be like last year..."
This presentation discusses strategies that we found successful.
Students, Counselors and Special Educators agreed.
There are a lot of other approaches that might work better for you.
But if you want a place to start...
Students, Counselors and Special Educators agreed.
There are a lot of other approaches that might work better for you.
But if you want a place to start...
Here are some great resources for learning the tools I mention in the above presentation--Hyperlinked, Interactive Slide Shows, Screencasting and Working with Gifs and other Images
(one note is that Pear Deck had become a paid service, and while it is great, you will want to find alternatives unless you want to pay for it.
EZ EdTech has put together this extremely comprehensive guide, almost 1 hour but great!
The great thing about this vid is that you learn a lot about Google Slides in General
Publishing Video.webmThe BUS ED Tech Training Guide is an amazing, gigantic collection of tutorials, help pages, articles and other resources about almost every Application and process you might want to learn about for your work. To be clear, this is not a strategy guide or an approach. This is a resource to come to when you want to explore something you have heard or read about, or to optimize something that you are already doing.
BUHS EdTech Training Guide
Strategic approaches are contained in other parts of on this page, and in Jen's Document below, which puts this EdTech effort in the context of the work that we have been doing for several years in student-centered work, multi-tiered systems of support, anti-racism and trauma-informed education.
Strategic approaches are contained elsewhere on this page, and in Jen's Document below, which puts this EdTech effort in the context of the work that we have already been doing around differentiation.
Effective Instruction for Remote and Hybrid Readiness
This is a resource guide of curated and organized resources. There are links and ideas for education to address our remote-learning needs in a way that honors the work we have already done as a Faculty to support our students learning.
You can move through the Doc right here on this page. You can even click on the links in that Doc right from here.
Picture and Video Resources--Free High-Quality Pic and Video Sites
Click this dropdown to get a few more resources for working with Google Slides and images in general
4 Tips to Improve Your Google Slides
How to Teach Remotely with a Google Slides Hyperdoc Part II
Create a GIF with Google Slides--this is a little Extra, but it gives you a fun way to create an engaging animated element for your Google Slide Presentations, on your Weekly Agenda or any other G Suite Doc or Google Site
Working with Images in Google Slides and Google Docs
Unsplash Tutorial--Unsplash is an astonishing collection of very high-quality free and royalty free images with attribution information (this background picture came from Unsplash)
Click This Dropdown to get a few more resources for working with video in general.
The Educator’s Guide To Using Video In Teaching And Learning
A 5-Step Guide to Making Your Own Instructional Videos
Crash Course for Educators in Making, Editing and Uploading Videos for Distance Education
(this person does their editing with iMovie for Apple, but it is still useful in a thousand other ways, especially if you are worried to do the above things. Reassuring and good at explaining YouTube settings, privacy, etc.)
Some of Our Ed Tech and Remote Instruction Heroes
Boy have we watched a lot of tutorials this summer, and these were our three favorite "Guides" to Educational Technology and Remote-Learning.
I know, not a high school teacher, but Michelle Ferré is an edtech guru! She is organized, upbeat and has a lot of great advice on Google Classroom and many other Ed Tech topics!
Some Titles:
Getting Started with Google Classroom
The 10 Best Decisions I Made With Online TeachingThe Ten Best Websites and Apps for Distance Learning
How to Create a Class Website for Teachers Using Google Sites
Sam Kary is a Google for Education Certified Trainer in Texas. He has the most comprehensive collection of Ed Tech videos on the web and he has a nice clear style many people appreciate (he is a bit on the geeky side). Sam is also a go-to for tutorials on new Ed Tech Apps. If you have heard of it, he has probably already used it in his classroom!
Some Titles:
How Integrating Technology Transformed my Classroom
Tech Tools for Interactive Remote Teaching WEBINAR
How to Teach Remotely YouTube Playlist--his entire approach in 31 videos.
(Please check this out)Gin Peterson is a high school computer science teacher in a Title I school right outside NYC. Her style is a little more informal, but also comprehensive and very practical. She will also guide you through many Ed Tech and G Suite Apps for Education, so if you like her style best, make her your guide.
Some Titles
Ed Tech Uploads Playlist
Turn a pdf into an Editable Worksheet in Google Slides
My Vlog: Teaching in a Pandemic
Who's Doing What
Below are three webpages, articles and approaches to scan for inspiration.
We want YOUR suggestions!!!
To the left is a Google Doc to post your favorite Apps, Procedures, Links and Especially links to activities, lessons, assessments and other items you made for your class so people can try it out. Check it out!
Read through it here or click the upper right corner to explore or add to the Doc!
To the left is a Google Doc to post your favorite Apps, Procedures, Links and Especially links to activities, lessons, assessments and other items you made for your class so people can try it out. Check it out!
Read through it here or click the upper right corner to explore or add to the Doc!