Providing students and parents/guardians with a checklist allows families to manage their own time and space efficiently. We see and hear how Parkway teachers are staying organized with checklists. For ideas on staying organized in a virtual classroom for students, check out this shared Checklist Bank folder. It has examples of checklists from K12 virtual teachers. Make a copy of these checklists to use from the Templates folder.
The new 2 Tips From Teachers has tips for using Zoom.
Tip #1 -Sharing a portion of your screen in Zoom (submitted by Samantha Stout at Wren Hollow)
Tip #2- Breakout Rooms- Talk & Type strategy (submitted by Monica Dickens at South High) - help provides equity with participation
written by Amy Johnson// posted by Elegan
Thinking about how to meet our students individual needs in an online environment can be tricky. There are some elements you can keep in mind as you design your online class that will make it more accessible to all students and their unique needs. Check out this "Accessibility" folder in the Schoology Training course which gives some tips on ADA design for online learning, some directions for tools available in Schoology and Google, as well as tools students can use to improve their experience.
Choose a topic or focus on all of the rooms.
Design activities for each room.
teacher led
outside websites
quiet working room
Introduce the stations and review the procedures:
What is expected? How many students can be at a station at any one time? What does a student do when s/he completes a station?
Remind students periodically of remaining time. Close activities with small group discussions. Try two broad guiding questions for the discussions: what did you learn and how does it connect to the broad topic? This is where we start to make connections to the big ideas. The discussion time is also an opportunity for students to discover other rooms. Students share what they did and learned with each other.
