Remote Teaching
Remote teaching is not what we did during spring 2020. We did triage/emergency online teaching. Now it's time to shift our thinking to real remote teaching. High-quality remote teaching has the same components as in-person teaching, it just requires different tools. Click on the underlined text and the purple boxes to link to different resources!
How to Create Lesson Plans During Remote Learning
This is just one way to do it! Do whatever works for you!
How do you take the plans you'd use in a regular classroom and think about teaching remotely?
This video walks you through my thought process and a helpful template that you could use, or you can read through step by step directions below.
Step by Step Directions: How I created my remote learning lesson plans
Look at your old lesson plans. They could be your calendar, or formal lesson plans.
Select the highest-leverage tasks that you normally do. Remote learning is slower than in person, so you won't get through everything you normally do!
Sort/highlight/color code the high-leverage tasks by synchronous (things that need to be done together) or asynchronous (things students can do on their own).
Synchronous examples: Discussions, learning/practicing skills that need immediate feedback, group work, etc.
Asynchronous examples: Lectures, reading, independent work, giving directions, practice problems, etc.
Think about the order of your tasks. Which synchronous tasks have to come before the asynchronous tasks?
Start organizing your tasks based on how much you can get through each day. Remember to keep the asynchronous work to 45 realistic minutes.
Fill in the Activities columns in the Lesson Planning Template.
For each activity, think about what tech tools you'll use, and how you'll need to adjust the activity to be done virtually. Fill in the Tech Tools column on the template.
Start making your Assignments in Teams! This is where you get to decide what students will need to turn in to demonstrate learning.
Create hyperlinks for each of your assignments and for any other resources you and your students will need.
Now you have a lesson plan that has links to all of your assignments and resources!
Check out this example of an AVID WICOR Lesson Plan from Cate Wilcox!
Building Community Remotely
Remote Community Building.docx
In this article, they share some ways online teaching should be different from face-to-face teaching. Melanie Kitchen came up with nine: three that are specific to community building and communication, and six that focus on instructional design. Along with these differences, she also shared a few things that should stay exactly the same.