Overcoming Instructional Challenges with Student Notebooks
Covid-19 has brought many challenges to the classroom. It doesn’t matter if you are teaching face-to-face, hybrid/blended or completely online, teaching in a global pandemic creates hurdles. If you are like me, one of the challenges you face may cause you...
Class Jobs in Live Classrooms to Create a Connected Classroom Culture
It is 9:00 AM and the first virtual class of the day has started. Students begin to join some with video and some without and a few students talk to each other so several conversations are going at once while others are silent. The lesson begins and it feels to the teacher that they are the only one engaged in the lesson. It is quiet and at times silent when the teacher asks questions. How might we develop structures for all students to be active in their live online classroom?
What’s missing? Let’s back up, we skipped a few steps!
Sometimes profound thinking comes out of the most innocent of discussions. This morning I was asked, “How did you crack the nut when you were creating online learning for teachers- the kind that truly meets their needs right now?”I took about 8...
Are you Remote Learning or Connected Learning?
Would we feel more connected and have a sense of community if we called the learning taking place today connected learning, rather than distant or remote? Share...
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