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Why Check In With Learners?
Agenda
Start Where You Are
COI (Community of Inquiry) Model
Activating Prior Knowledge
Mutualism
Humanizing OL
Using Videos
Trauma and Stress Awareness
Q & A
Remember: we’re not teaching remotely under ideal conditions. We’re teaching remotely during a global pandemic.
What’s working?
Pedagogy before tech.
People before pedagogy.
Words create worlds.
COI Model
Tip: After you plan a lesson or class, tag each activity with one or more of these types of connections. Do you have a balanced lesson?
Activating Prior Knowledge-Why
What do learners already know?
Opportunity for all three types of connections
Formative assessment (quick, easy, informative, helps you adapt your teaching)
Synch or asynch
Humanizing
Primes the brain for new knowledge
Our learners know things we don’t know
Activating Prior Knowledge-Examples
Videos (Screencast-O-Matic, FlipGrid, EdPuzzle)
Padlet
Music
Images, gifs, memes
Humor
Controversial “hooks”
Questions (use chat, yes/no, polls)
Mutualism: spaces that benefit both you and your students.
Evaluate your teaching choices based on mutualism. Seek a healthy balance.
Humanizing OL=
Presence + Care + Validation + Toying with Hierarchy
Short version: Don’t be a robot.
Try a liquid syllabus.
COI Model: Teacher-Student, Student-Student, and Student-Content Connections
Start the class by checking-in with your learners.
Activate learners’ prior knowledge to set the foundation for all three types of connections.
Practice mutualism: seek win-win spaces for faculty and students.
Humanize your online classroom. Don’t be a robot.
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Are you currently using videos in your courses? What types of videos?
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Tip #1:
Make a welcome video via the YouTube app on your phone/tablet and upload it to your course.
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Tip #2
Forget the script. Speak from the heart. The “mistakes” are the best part.
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Tip #3
Reuse your videos whenever possible.
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Tip #4
Have a conversation with your students.
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How are stress and trauma impacting your classes?
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John Medina, Brain Rules
In almost every way it can be tested, chronic stress impacts our ability to learn.
defining trauma
an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being
Trauma-aware teaching is not about trying to become counselors for our students.
It’s about developing empathy and telling the truth about who lives, learns, and teaches inside of our classrooms.
What we perceive as misbehavior could very likely be stress/trauma behavior.
Lack of awareness of what is trauma behavior can impact the quality of our relationships and connections.
executive function skills
Focus (Getting Started)
Concentration (Keep Going)
Decision-Making
Delayed Gratification
Time Management
Prioritizing Information
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Strategies
Choice (assignments, cameras optional)
Using students’ names
Sharing pronouns
Balance structure and flexibility
Refer for support
Listen (silent)
Notice and own your own stuff
Trauma-Aware Teaching Checklist: https://bit.ly/traumachecklist
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