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Remote Classroom Jobs
To help provide structure and encourage leadership and participation, create classroom jobs for your remote learning environment.
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...
Muted Share-Aloud
To help combat Zoom fatigue, anxiety, and connectivity issues, allow students to be flexible about when they turn on cameras during synchronous lessons.
Breakout Group Roles and Expectations
This slide deck includes breakout group roles and descriptions, norms, expectations, and a template for shared working notes.
Breakout Group Work Expectations
This slidedeck shares breakout group expectations and a note about facilitation.
Expectations Ensure Engagement
Regardless of whether students attend school in person or remotely, being explicit about roles and expectations in small groups is vital to engagement and the effective use of time. In remote settings, expectations may change, so educators must be...
Active Spelling
This screencast shows how one teacher engages her students in an active spelling activity. In this video, the educator explains and models the strategy in action, sharing how she guides students through physical movements (e.g., jumping jacks) to...
Communicate the Plan
When working with students in-person, remote, and within a hybrid and/or simultaneous learning environment, it is important that they know what to do, when to do it, and how so they can engage meaningfully wherever they are physically.
Digital Vending Machine Slide Template
This slide deck offers multiple templates for building your own Digital Vending Machine to give options and build engagement with your students in remote, hybrid, and simultaneous learning environments.
Setting Expectations Through Surveys
As students and teachers return to in-person learning, it is important to align on expectations, leverage learnings and students' skills from remote instruction, and design experiences that will support students in effective ways.