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Synchronous Online Teaching Strategies

Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics Part 1

August 5, 2020

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Theresa Wills, PhD

twills@gmu.edu

theresawills.com

@theresawills

YouTube.com/theresawills

Assistant Professor

Mathematics Education Leadership

George Mason University

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Find all of these templates and more at:

theresawills.com/templates

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How might you use visible polling in your content for unit or daily goals?

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Tell us what you teach

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How might you use respond and code in your content area?

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What is similar and different about the templates? Why might you choose one over the other?

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Easy for me

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How might you use “Tug-O-Word” in your content area?

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Breakout Room Activity

Random Groups of 3-5

  • Turn on your mic’s
  • Discuss the prompts:
    • What does it mean to be a “learner of technology?”
    • Why might it be important to show/model this to students?
  • Type your thinking, as it evolves (brain dump) into your groups textbox.
  • As your thinking converges, rewrite your initial brain dump into coherent statements.

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When the timer ends, please finish your thought and return to the main room within 1 minute.

10 min

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What does it mean to be a “learner of technology?” Why might it be important to show and model this to students?

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What does it mean to be a “learner of technology?” Why might it be important to show and model this to students?

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What were advantages to viewing the brain dumps from other groups while developing your own ideas?

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Breakout Room Activity

Random Groups of 3-5

  • Move to your assigned slide and type one short response in only 1 compass point.
  • Continue through all 3 slides.
    • Read what the other team has typed.
    • If you agree, turn it bold.
    • Add new information to the sections.

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When the timer ends, please finish your thought and return to the main room within 1 minute.

10 min

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How is student voice different from your initial slide to your summarized slide?

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Breakout Room Activity

Random Groups of 3-5

  • Turn on your mic’s
  • Discuss:
    • “In a perfect world, my online classes would be...”
  • Create a slide that uses clipart, images, text, gifs, or any other representations to summarize your discussion.

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When the timer ends, please finish your thought and return to the main room within 1 minute.

10 min

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What is an activity from today’s PD that you pledge to try to give your students more voice in your class?

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Find all of these templates and more at:

theresawills.com/templates

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PD registration

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PD registration

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