Saturday, September 12, 2020

Teaching in the Time of Corona

Let's face it...even if you are teaching face-to-face classes in grades 5-12, students spend 3 days out of 5 learning from home. As you know from the spring, teaching online is pedagogically different from traditional face-to-face teaching. Some traditional classroom activities like teacher-led lectures simply don't translate well to an online environment. In contrast, HyperDocs, in which teachers prepare student paced digital lessons, allow for much more student agency. To help you sort out "best practices" for online instruction, I have curated several articles, blogs, and tweets using Wakelet--it's a great tool for easily curating and sharing content. See my Wakelet Board below for help in getting started with your online teaching journey. For those of you who are teaching fully in-person classes in grades K-4, it can't hurt to take a look at this collection as well to be prepared in the event that we return to fully remote teaching and learning. Here is the direct link to the collection, with my apologies to Gabriel García Márquez: https://wke.lt/w/s/9Q4FGS