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Where are you in your teaching & learning journey?
Where are you in your teaching & learning journey?
Level 1 - Resources
Level 1 - Resources
Building Relationships & Class Community with the Responsive Classroom First 4 Weeks
Adapted from the RC Book "Building An Academic Community"
Build Class Community through Responsive Advisory Meetings
Learn what RAM is, why we do it, and how to implement in your virtual classrooms.
Increase your Touchpoints with Students
Touchpoints are interactions we have with students and families, and learning from a distance reduces our chances of regular interaction.
Building Success Criteria in the Virtual Classroom
We know Success Criteria is important in our classrooms, but watch to learn about the connection with our virtual, or hybrid, learning situations.
Create a virtual learning environment/lesson, and flex your on-site learners ("roomers") into the lesson no matter what your curriculum content or lesson is.
How do I create an online learning experience and bring in the on-site students in to my lesson?
Video by Mike Caulfield re: blended learning, or what he calls Zoomflex. View this for a full explanation of what you see in the Zoomflex resource (Left)
Feedback - Levels of Feedback in Distance Learning
Chris Ewing talks about giving different levels of feedback, and even shares examples of each level of feedback specific to our distance learning situation.
A collection of Remote Learning teaching tips can be found in this document. See slides 9-12 for tips on giving feedback in some of our specific platforms and how you can streamline feedback to you see many students need to save you time.
Elleisha Elzein shares how she used virtual conferencing when she didn't have her students in person with her and she found written feedback in remote learning was difficult to provide to students in a way they could understand.
Have a district or self-created rubric that could be used for scoring and feedback on student work? No need for extra documents that you need to link or share with your students! Create your rubric right in Google Classroom and attach it to your assignment for each scoring and access to provide corrective feedback to let students know where they are, where they are going, and how they will get there.
Level 2 - Resources
Level 2 - Resources
Jennifer Serravallo gives insight to six shifts to benefit teachers and students whether you're online or hybrid. The more we let go, give learners ownership, and make learning as authentic as it can be in these odd times, the more we will help increase student engagement.
Barry Dahl offers 7 tips for student engagement in online course. Resources are embedded within the Brightspace community.
KEEP & MAXIMIZE YOUR EXISTING CONTENT & CURRICULUM
You’ve already invested in content and curriculum. Pear Deck helps make those resources engaging and interactive. Keep your lessons in a format you can use and share. Create, collaborate, and share your Pear Deck files with a single click. Working with Pear Deck is as simple as opening Slides or PowerPoint. No need to upload files, or to learn a new set of tools.
Flippity easily turns any Google spreadsheet into flash cards, a badge creator, a spelling quiz, a memory game, a word search, and more. Teachers can use Flippity for a variety of purposes: to present to the class, to assess individual students, or to have students make their own creations.
Erintegration shows us how we can use digital stickers to give fun feedback to students on work completed in Google Classroom with these tips! Digital stickers can be used during distance learning or anytime to mark up digital work completed in various online platforms. Learn how to use digital stickers, grab some free digital stickers and see some easy ways to make your own!
Instant formative assessment tool for your classroom, providing you with live feedback and immediate overview over your students.
Level 3 - Resources
Level 3 - Resources
This article by Lisa Westman shares the importance of student connectedness, formative assessment to provide a roadmap for differentiation, and a chart with ideas for differentiation for remote learning.
This article on the Top Hat blog addresses how differentiation works online and provides differentiated instruction strategies for digital classrooms.
Today's One Thing for Teachers: Improving student outcomes through differentiation, focusing on these three starting points: strategically grouping students, offering opportunities for choice, and presenting the same content in multiple ways
In this short video (10:26), Carol Ann Tomlinson, Differentiated Instruction expert, offers advice for meeting the different interests and needs of students when teachers can’t be in the classroom with them every day.
Station Rotation and the Playlist Model are two strategies that allow for differentiation in a hybrid learning environment. These slides include the benefits of both models, a general description, and links to examples and further details.
From article Why We Need Differentiation Now More Than Ever
Ensuring all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities
Level 4 - Resources
Level 4 - Resources
Get students to tune back in by adopting dynamic, collaborative learning strategies that encourage them to get involved with the material and each other. Studies have shown that online collaborative learning increases academic performance, knowledge retention, and interpersonal skills.
Here are seven of our favorite collaborative learning strategies that can easily be adapted to or enhanced by online learning.
Continue to the Available PD Calendar to view upcoming live training sessions and asynchronous professional development opportunities.
Continue to the Available PD Calendar to view upcoming live training sessions and asynchronous professional development opportunities.
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