To fulfill semester hours required by Maryville College, you may engage in the following remote instructional activities while K-12 school systems are operating on-line.
Consult the TN Academic Standards to identify content appropriate for your respective grade level. You will be required to log three hours of direct instructional engagement each day (15 hours/week).
You are encouraged to submit no more than three of the same activities in any given week. The options below allow for flexibility and variety.
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Free Choice
Remote Learning
Fact Sheet
Explore a new remote learning tool. Create a one-page summary fact sheet about it. (EdPuzzle, FlipGrid, PearDeck, etc…)
How do you use it? Applications of the tool? Why is it an appropriate choice for certain content?
Think of other information you might want to include on your one-page, easy-to-read, graphically-enhanced, summary fact sheet.
Resource
Curation
Build a library of high quality resources for teaching and learning. Each curation must include 10 annotated resources per topic.
Example Topic: 8th Science, Earth’s Systems: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
You would find 10 high quality, annotated resources on the three types of rocks including various media as well as print sources. (This would count as one activity.)
Video Tutorial /
Podcast
Identify a challenging skill or dense text material for which you could create an instructional tutorial or interactive podcast video.
Choose an appropriate tool for the task. Create a script to enhance the final product. How will you share or post your product?
(You may have to play two parts in your Podcast or “hire” a voice actor/peer to play a part.)
Read Alouds /
Book Chats
Video yourself reading aloud or doing an in-depth book chat.
You could stop and analyze text or ask critical thinking questions, as you read. Pretend your students are answering your questions as you repeat their imaginary responses for your virtual “audience”.
Free
Choice
You have an option to seek out an activity not included on this choice board, but you must get prior approval.
Lesson
Plans
Determine a topic within your content and create a detailed lesson plan with all the ancillary materials and support documents needed to teach the lesson. The key word here is “detailed”.
30 Second
Brain Boost
Think of your own Inspirational Brain Boost Break activity.
Tell a math joke. Sing a science song. Do a funny analysis on a piece of art. Rap about history. Lead an ELA cheer. How about a spoken word on a PE concept? Or maybe a yoga move to music? Some TESL chants, anyone? Read a riddle, perhaps? Lead a pantomime. Demo a cardio sequence choreographed with theatre content using body mapping.
Come up with a way to present this 30-second media blast that could be used to inspire students to take a break from their online work and do something creative and active with their brains. You can use videos, slides, audio, etc…..
Mentor Teacher
Assigned Work
Your Mentor Teacher may have some ideas for ways you can integrate in and contribute to the instructional day.
Maybe hold “office hours”? Moderate chats? Review student work? Ask how you can be of assistance.
Produce a one-page reflection as a deliverable to document your instructional activity.
Professional
Development
Propose an individualized professional development activity to meet your specific needs. Refer to the Google Classroom Resources for Remote Teaching for ideas.
You may also choose to complete modules related to your discipline or more generalized modules applicable to all areas, such as Jason Foundation modules.
Gain approval from your Clinical Supervisor (Lucas, Gardner, or Orren) before you commit to a specific PD activity.
Submit an appropriate deliverable (a certificate, summary, fact sheet, reflection, etc).
QUEstions & Answers
A Q&A section will be posted here as you start to work through your choice board. Submit any questions you have to Dr. Gradner, Dr. Lucas, or Dr. Orren and we will compile the list of Questions with Answers here.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
You will post weekly to your Remote Teaching Activity Log. Each week’s activities must be linked on your log and submitted by midnight on Sunday.