How To Teach When Everyone Is Scattered
Note to user: Remember your own personalized copies of documents, templates, and items to capture learning are shared within the Google Classroom. If you are not in the Classroom, then please reach out to Aaron Maurer(amaurer@mbaea.org) to learn how to get involved.
This module assumes you know and can do the following:
Competency
Continually take note of what is or is not working (via student-level data, technology applications, pedagogical strategies, supervisor feedback, etc) and then take action to iteratively improve. (Aurora Institute)
Goals of Learning
Learning Outcomes
Identify the issue(s) you are currently facing based on the five topics of the podcast
Figure out what is in your toolbox to help resolve the issue
Apply new learning
What I will DO in this module:
Listen to a podcast created by Jennifer Gonzalez
Reflect on some internal questions about your practice
Engage in dialogue with other educators about the issues you are facing.
Accept and complete the challenge!
Launch
Think Abouts
What are the elements in your online/hybrid teaching you wish to improve?
What are some of the biggest elements you wish to improve in the actual learning online?
Learn
Listen to the Recording
An incredible podcast that you should subscribe to for all of her episodes.
Questions to Consider
What did you learn about creating student cohorts from the podcast?
What did you learn about limiting the synchronous from the podcast?
What did you learn about chunking the time from the podcast?
What did you learn about building community intentionally from the podcast?
What did you learn about experimenting with cameras and screens from the podcast?
What did you learn about optimizing discussions from the podcast?
Reflect
If you listen to the podcast version, then you can try to the Walk and Talk method of learning!
Walk and Talk
For this task & for these new environments of teaching and learning we have the opportunity to avoid the typical "sit and get" approach to learning.
For this learning I am asking you to get up, grab some headphones and walk while you listen and reflect. The podcast is 40 minutesso you can break up into two sessions or knock it out in one session.
If you are in a school you could ask permission to walk the halls during your prep or before/after school.
This idea was adapted from this post
Capture ideas by voice typing into your app of choice, but I would recomend adding to a Google Doc or Google Keep
If you need to learn about voice typing, then here is a newsletter and video guide
Template
Here is a template(if you are in the course please use the version in Google Classroom) to capture your ideas.
Feel free to capture ideas in a mode that best serves you. This is just one way to organize thoughts and perhaps a tool you can use with staff and students.
Talk About Your Ideas
Share your answers to the questions above in the watching of the video.
Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the Google Group. This discussion is labeled How to Teach When Everyone is Scattered.
Share your answers to the questions above in the listening to the podcast
Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the topic. This discussion is labeled Strength
Challenge
Challenge Submission
Step 1: Pick one of the topics explored in the podcast
creating student cohorts
limiting the synchronous time
chunking the time
building community intentionally
experimenting with cameras and screens
optimizing discussions
Step 2: Explore additional resources in podcast shownotes
Step 3: Make a plan to implement one of these ideas into your practice
Step 4: Share your plan and the results on how it worked for you in Flipgrid or Discussion Group
Resources & Further Learning
Podcast Page
Cult of Pedogogy is incredible. This link will take you the podcast episode and this includes transcript along with all the links discussed.
Please use this as the resource for this learning.