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Emergency Learning: My new normal; living with COVID-19
Emergency Learning: My new normal; living with COVID-19
Education will never be the same.
Education will never be the same.
A small team of educators at WHS came together to develop a transdisciplinary learning opportunity to support both students and teachers while living in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since March of 2020, I have been working like my of my educator and LMS colleagues from home due to the COVID-19 Outbreak. As an LMS I was asked to build a robust digital tool professional learning plan and tutorials with my fellow Wilton Public School Library Media Specialists. What we quickly realized as LMSs was that emergency eLearning is not how we had ever done business before. Meeting daily in video conferences on Zoom and Google Meets created a new normal that none of us were prepared for. I am proud to say that I am proud of my collaborative work with my fellow LMS colleagues to be responsive to any digital tool and or instructional question that came our way.
While in the middle of the COVID-19 emergency learning from home, one of my general education peers and I meet on Zoom to discuss the potential for a transdisciplinary learning experience for students across the high school. My science colleague and I cultivated a small team of innovative teachers to prototype a project based learning experience. We concluded that we wanted to support our students and staff's social emotional and academic needs during this pandemic.
PBLearning.mp4LMS PBL Collaboration
LMS PBL Collaboration
A growing number of teachers at WHS jumped on board to engage their learners in a PBA COVID-19 themed learning experience. "What is my new normal?
Collaboration With 20th Century American Literature Students
Collaboration With 20th Century American Literature Students
Pairing Texts and Unpacking Art
When collaborating with an English Teacher, we designed and interdisciplinary lesson that married traditional English content with history, art, and popular culture. We hoped that students would build a context for visuals that were created in the 1920s and synthesize connections between the art and the novel, The Great Gatsby. Students were to have small group conversations (discourse) based on the protocol introduced and modeled for them by the teacher(s).
Collaboration With Spanish V Students:
Collaboration With Spanish V Students:
Facilitator of Information
Facilitator of Information
Students in the Spanish V class engage with the curated print and digital resources in the WHS LLC. Students are supported by two collaborative their teacher and me.
Communication/Collaboration
Communication/Collaboration
Spanish V students presented their Olympic games 2032 opening ceremonies proposals by choosing digital tools that would best communicate their vision for their nation's culture, geography, and identity.
Collaboration With Math Students
Collaboration With Math Students
Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Students in a math class worked collaboratively together to design prototypes for a circular amusement park attraction.
Prototypes
Prototypes
Students presented their designs and explained how the math helped them develop their prototypes that are displayed in the LLC.
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