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Color-Coding for Ease and Clarity
By color-coding and organizing activities, students and teachers are able to quickly access and understand the task at hand across remote and hybrid environments.
Amtrak Car Breakout Room Teacher Slides
When implementing a variety of breakout rooms, it is important to be clear and consistent so that students know what to expect. These two slides describe the various Amtrak Car breakout rooms and cover the expectations for specific student actions...
Amtrak Learning Cars
Amtrak Learning Cars enable students to choose their remote learning environment by picking between engaging with their peers, getting additional teacher support, or working quietly by themselves.
Token Board Template
This template can be edited to support all grade levels by offering different prizes, illustrations, and other incentives for positive student behaviors.
Virtual Award System
Students can earn virtual awards as a class to earn rewards based on positive behaviors.
Explanation of Wait Questions
This video gives additional information and framing around Wait Questions, along with two other types of questions you can use with remote synchronous instruction: Speed Questions and Verbal Questions. These same techniques can be used in person as...
Wait Questions
One way to ensure all students both engage and offer up answers when participating in synchronous remote instruction is by offering “Wait Questions.”
Defining Clear Roles in Group Work
Developing team roles is a strategy that helps students take individual responsibility for a shared group goal.
Virtual Prizes for Positive Behaviors
This deck shares examples of different individual and whole-class remote rewards used in a 3rd-grade class, but similar rewards with small shifts could work for any grade.
Muted Share-Aloud Video Explanation
This video describes how students read synchronously while on video, but muted, to show their engagement and silently celebrate their successes.
Requiring Cameras Only for 1:1 and Small-Group Time
This video describes the importance of allowing students to keep their cameras off at times during a lesson and then prompting students to turn their cameras back on during one-to-one meetings with the teacher and in small-group settings. These more...