This content was adapted from the Modern Classrooms Project and given as a PD at Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School.

For more information about the Modern Classrooms Project and to take their free course, please follow this link.

The purpose of this webpage is to show how Professional Development at schools can be personalized, self-paced, and use best practices.

The argument is, especially right now, teacher PD should model best practices for remote learning. It will increase engagement, reduce teachers' anxiety, and create space for experimentation.

Please read this article in NGLC for more information.

-- All content was originally posted to Canvas as a self-paced module --

Intro to Modern Classrooms PD

The goal of the following lesson is to begin introducing you to the Modern Classrooms Framework for teaching remotely (and even in person when we eventually get back in the building). You will be experiencing this lesson from the perspective of a student, by going through a module created by Ms. Glickman, Ms. Williamson, and Mr. Browning.

First, the Modern Classroom framework is broken into three core practices:

In this series of lessons, we will be focusing on the first competency:

Blended Instruction

Objectives:

The objectives for this lesson are:

• By the end of the PD, teachers will be introduced to the Modern Classrooms model and how it can be applied to a broad spectrum of content areas.

• By the end of the PD, teachers will be able to apply strategies they can immediately apply to develop stronger lessons and more engaging modules.

• By the end of the PD, teachers will see an exemplar of what quality remote instruction is and how students can engage in online asynchronous learning (modules).

This will be achieved by:

• A series of 5 quick video lessons:

  • • Building Content

    • Recording Videos

    • Embedding Questions

    • Posting to Canvas

    • Advanced Canvas Module Settings

• A series of Exemplar Materials:

  • • Unit Plans from various content Areas

    • Ways of setting up modules

To get started with the lessons, please click here to go to Building Content.