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Wellness and
Social Emotional Learning
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Self-care is Not Selfish
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The best way you can care for yourself is to think about what you personally need to feel your best.
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Working Agreements and Wellness Creed
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Evolving Role of the Educator to Meet the Needs of Learners at Home
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Want to connect better with students?
MGC- Find those
Moments of Genuine
Connection
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Equitable Participation Online
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See how hand signals can help promote
*equitable participation* whether class discussions are taking place online or in-person.
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From our friends @PGIVBCPS
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Morning Meeting Motivators Example
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Asking for a friend...
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During remote learning, ask students questions like, “What would you tell a friend who is having a hard time with the isolation?” All of the sudden, they start thinking about all of these strategies that they would use to be compassionate to someone. Bonus: This approach supports a more positive self talk!
Digital Tools | Students add their response to the Chat area of Zoom or Google Meet. Call on a few students to unmute mic and expand upon ideas. |
Success Strategy | For younger students, some teachers have been reading books aloud to their students virtually and then reflecting on the social-emotional skills of the characters in the books, |
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Four Core Priorities for
Trauma- Informed
Distance Learning
Predictability |
Flexibility |
Connection |
Empowerment |
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Before we go to the the next section, use the SEL space on the chart to document your reflection and to set goals.
Reflection ideas:
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Getting
Started w/
Virtual Learning
2020-2021 SY
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Great Reads
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Weekly Schedule Chart
Start to visually map out different parts of your day. This will be a work in progress as you meet with grade level teams and your admin. This template can guide you as your daily and weekly plans evolve.
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Blank Template (General) |
Virtual Schedule (ES) |
File> Make a Copy
To edit template
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Communication Plan
Communication with students and parents needs to be more thorough, streamlined, and predictable.
Know:
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How- How will you be communicating w/ students and parents? |
When- When will you schedule Office Hours and Check-ins? |
Where- Where will your contact info be posted and shared? |
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Virtual Learning Norms/Agreements
To promote a positive online culture, norms/agreements need to be developed and strongly established.
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Virtual Learning Class Norms- How can we connect school-wide PBIS plan with our noms/agreements for online learning? |
Norms/Agreements Will you share out a premade list of norms to discuss students or will you create an activity to brainstorm and collaborate with students? Example activity: See Station 5 Example video: Kindergarten Virtual Learning Rules Example activity: New Classroom Constitution |
Where will your norms/agreements be posted? (Revisit w/ students often!) |
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Virtual Learning Norms/Agreements
Examples
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Breakout Room Agreements
Greetings
Attend to the Task
Be Active
Respect Other Points of View
COMMUNICATE
Responsibly
Take a Role
Greet your team and introduce yourself.
Have mic/camera on.
Know the question.
Know the task.
Know the time limit.
Be focused
Be attentive
Be an active participant
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Be kind
Be considerate
Speak clearly
Stay on topic
Take turns speaking
Lead discussion
�Timekeeper or Scribe�
Volunteer to share out
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Think about the virtual meetings you facilitated last spring.
What else would you add to these tips?
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Digital Citizenship and Visibility
As you start the year off setting norms for a happy, safe learning environment, make digital citizenship a core component of that process. Securly Classroom is a tool to support teachers with greater visibility of online student activity.
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Securly- Internet Filtering (Previously Content Keeper) |
Securly Classroom- Student Engagement and Classroom Management |
Resources to Support Digital Citizenship | |
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Community and Relationship Building
Check out these ideas and strategies for building classroom community and for getting to know your students in remote learning?
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Student Survey- What questions will help you learn about your students? What tool will you use? | Google Form? :5 Questions to Reveal Your Students’ Strengths and Interests (George Couros) |
Ideas: Create and communicate “All About Me” | |
Ideas: Fun community building ideas for virtual meetings | |
40 Weird Questions to Ask Your Students to Get to Know Them Better |
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What else would you add to these relationship building tips?
*See 3 great examples down in the speaker notes!
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Build Capacity w/ Virtual Learning Tools for Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning
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Plan with Gradual Release in Mind
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Start the Set-up of Your Digital Classroom
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In order to provide ease of navigation and a level of continuity for students and those providing support, this year we have Schoology elements are essential.
Your school may also have specific requirements not listed on this document.
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Lesson Flow-
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Lesson Flow-
5E Model of Instruction
“The 5E Model of Instruction includes five phases: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. It provides a carefully planned sequence of instruction that places students at the center of learning. It encourages all students to explore and construct understanding. –Rodger Bybee
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Just a great way to design your online lesson “flow” to support students as they make meaning of new concepts! |
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Recap- Getting Started
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Before we go to the the next section, use the Getting Started space on the chart to document your reflection and to set goals.
Reflection ideas:
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Digital
Tools
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Digital Capacity
Choose to use fewer digital tools. Less is more! It is more important with remote learning to build routines and to have consistency. Model, share videos, and create screencasts to support learning the digital tools for students success.
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Cue Cards
Non-verbal cue cards can be held up to the live meeting camera to help students find the right Zoom or Google Meet feature or focus on a task..
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Welcome to our new Instructional Technology Google Site
Reach out for support from your ITS and LMS! We have Office Hours,
1:1 Time Slots,
and are here to meet with departments or grade levels.
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Schoology Organization
A successful and engaging online teacher sets up the class LMS so it is easy to navigate.
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Provide explicit directions (video screencasts and text) |
Communicate learning targets |
Make course resources and information easy to find |
Provide clear due dates that appear on calendar |
Check to be sure items posted are accessible by students |
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Before we go to the the next section, use the Digital Tools space on the chart to document your reflection and to set goals.
Reflection ideas:
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Engagement
Boosters
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Host Shorter Sessions w/
Fewer Students
Some teachers may prefer to offer 1 or 2 long synchronous session each week for their class; however, large group learning is rarely as dynamic or equitable as small group.
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Success Strategy | Teachers will have more success offering three 20 minute discussion sessions with eight to ten students each, compared to one 60 minute session with 25-30 students. |
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Station Rotation for Small Groups
Benefits of Station Rotation Model
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Examples |
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Pre-Game
Provide students with some important information prior to your virtual meeting.
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Share agenda |
List of items to have ready |
Other tabs to have open |
Assign an activity, view a video or read a mentor text and be ready to discuss tomorrow |
Using breakout rooms? Special Guest? Virtual Field Trip? |
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Divide and Conquer with Co-Teaching
We are each other’s most valuable resources. Invite your coaches, Specialists, Spec. Ed, TAs, Counselors, and Admin to co-teach with you!
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Success Strategy | Before the virtual meeting with the co-teacher, let students know a guest has been invited! Build suspense. |
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Assign Roles/Jobs
Provide students with leadership roles during synchronous meetings. .
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These roles might include
Rotate jobs or allow for sign-ups so everyone has a chance to participate and learn skills. |
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Chat Feature
Ask students to respond to the chat area often!
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Every 5- 10 minutes, ask a good open ended question for all to answer in the chat area. Unmute a few mics and call on participants to expand on their answer. |
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Digital Discussions
Responding to an open ended question provides students time to share their unique thoughts, opinions, and insight. Students interact and connect with one another by reading and responding to posts.
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Schoology | |
Seesaw | Class Blog (Enable in Settings) |
Success Strategy | Invite students to create a discussion question. |
Peer Reply | Model and guide students with support for responding to one another. Set high expectations for writing and responding. |
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Lean into Student Agency
Introduce more student control over activities and assessments during remote learning and see engagement increase!
Invite students to develop homegrown projects related to authentic connections to learning or their own curiosities and interests.
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Key questions to activitate student agency in your planning-
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Choice Boards and Learning Menus
Choice boards provide students with flexible learning paths to the learning goal. Every student has different strengths, learning styles, and interests, and choice boards allow us to reach more learners in new and different ways.
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Choice boards help us to differentiate and give students a voice in their learning.
Check out this 4Cs Learning Menu and other templates by Kasey Bell.
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Synchronous Learning Exit Ticket
*Include Participation
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After an indepth live virtual meeting, provide students with an exit ticket to check for understanding, summarize and reflect upon what was learned, and to self-assess level of participation. |
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Breakout Sessions
Use breakout sessions to allow students to be in mini-groups for discussion and collaboration. As the instructor, you can join breakout rooms, broadcast messages to the breakout rooms, and end the breakout sessions when it is time to regroup.
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Digital Tool | Zoom, Schoology Conferences |
Success Strategy | “Every time students were in a Breakout session, they worked on a shared Google slide, doc, or jamboard that is owned by the teacher. This way, even if I wasn’t in their discussion, I could visually see their progress. I could even leave comments as they were working to provide feedback without listening to the conversation.” |
Model | Guide students with support for breakout sessions. Set high expectations to accomplish the set task within the time limit. |
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Polling
Ask quick questions and share results visually in a graph format. Great springboard for live discussion, SEL, and hook for learning target.
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Digital Tools | Google Meet, Google Form, Schoology Updates poll feature, �Free versions of Peardeck, Nearpod, or Menti |
Success Strategy | Capture the graph as an image to use in a follow-up online discussion question, Pull in Math/ Statistics vocabulary, |
Success Strategy | Use polling opportunities to pose questions related to curriculum and also to discuss SEL rich topics |
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Random Name Picker
The element of surprise is always fun when selecting students to complete a task or respond to a question during synchronous learning.
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Digital Tools | Flippity.net, Classroom Screen Open on another tab to easily access. |
Success Strategy | Allow a student to “phone a friend” (pick a friend also on the virtual meeting) for help in responding to the question. |
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Digital Whiteboard
No whiteboard at home? No problem. Here are a list of tools to support you with a digital whiteboard.
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Collaborative Whiteboards (Zoom and Google Meet paid versions) | |
Every student gets a white board to respond | |
Other Whiteboards |
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Annotate on PDFs, Images, and Websites
While presenting live to students, sometime you just need to annotate on top of what is on your screen.
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Use Online Manipulatives and Simulations to Grow Concepts
Model concepts using real manipulates or try these digital options-
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Hands-on Demonstration
Conduct an experiment or demonstrate of a concept asking students to predict and discuss throughout the process.
(a la Bill Nye)
The students want to see you. Give your slides a break.
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Scavenger Hunts
When working with kids remotely, it’s essential to infuse fun into online learning. Scavenger hunts can increase student engagement during virtual conferencing sessions and create an incentive for students to want to attend..
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Use Reaction Icons and Emojis
Invite students to “raise their hand” and react to learning using icons provided in virtual learning platform. Practice using these with students!
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Google Meet- Model and show students how to use the Nod Extension |
Zoom- Turn on meeting reactions in settings |
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Games for Synchronous Meetings
Some say competition is the 6th C! Have fun with some of these online games to reinforce learning goals.
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Interactive Slides
Add interactive features to check for understanding and to keep students “with you” while presenting.
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Pear Deck (free version) |
Nearpod (free version) |
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What else would you add to these engagement tips?
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Student Journaling
Provide students with regular opportunities to express themselves and how they are connecting to their new learning. You can host live synchronous discussions online so they can share their journals and have an opportunity to connect with one another over academics.
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Google Slide | |
Seesaw | Journal Activity template |
Journal | Real notebook style journal, pencil/pen |
Success Strategy | Provide students with one or two things you will be looking for in their writing skills. |
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Call and Response Ideas
In ES, we have been using call and response for years:�“123 eyes on me, I, 2, eyes on you!” ��These are great to to use while online too! Check out some ideas in the links below to add to your collection. Practice these with your students!
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Engagement
Strategies
for All
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Before we go to the the next section, use the Engagement space on the chart to document your reflection and to set goals.
Reflection ideas:
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Feedback Focus
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Feedback answers these 3 questions for students-
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Peer to Peer Feedback
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Digital Tools Feedback Features
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Success Strategy | When receiving audio feedback, students tend to be more engaged, are better able to understand the real intent, and retain the information. |
Success Strategy | Build a connection with each student by including their name in the feedback. |
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Individual Check-ins
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Conversing with students remains one of the most powerful and meaningful way to check for understanding. In remote learning, stay connected with students by also scheduling 1 on 1 check-in sessions. �Use this time to provide formative feedback on progress that is being made.
Scheduling Tool | |
Success Strategy | This is a also a great time to check in on student goal setting and SEL support! |
Success Strategy | Do you have a student who needs more? Check out #13 on this list |
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Before we go to the the next section, use the Feedback space on the chart to document your reflection and to set goals.
Reflection ideas:
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Concurrent
Teaching
Face to Face + Virtual
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Special Whiteboard Set-up
*Students at home and in class will see the same instruction on the whiteboard.
Step by Step Laptop + Whiteboard Directions�Click here
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Advice and Tips
From VBCPS Teachers w/Face to Face and Virtual Students
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Cult of Pedagogy
Podcast and Article
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30 Minute Podcast
6 Steps to Concurrent Teaching Success
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Teaching in the Concurrent Classroom
4 Strategies to Make it Work
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1/21/21 Webinar Video
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The Concurrent Classroom:
Using Blended Learning Models
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Flip Flip Lesson Design
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"Catlin Tucker’s “flip flop" lesson design can free you to focus on one group at a time. This is a 2 station rotation model.
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Keeping Kids Collaborating
No Matter Where They Are
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Check out these 5 strategies will get them working together, no matter where they are.
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4 Engaging Structures that Work in a Hybrid Learning Environment
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How do I structure the learning experience so kids at home and in-class are both learning?
Post by A.J. Juliani
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Making the Most
Out of Hybrid Learning
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Podcast and blog post
By John Spencer
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Reflection ideas:
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Do you have strategic moves for virtual learning that we might include in this resource?
Please use this Google Form!
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Which of these do you think is the most important for virtual learning?
Closing Thoughts...
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