Teaching Remotely: A Practical Guide

Keep learning. I'm going through this online course through NC State to prepare for potential remote/hybrid teaching in the upcoming school year. 

(From 7/6/2020)

Specifically, the course will include the following units:

• Unit 0: Defining Remote Learning: We will define what Remote Learning is and is not, how it is different from traditional "distance learning", and review the Instructional Design Principles for Remote Learning.
• Unit 1: Establishing Norms for Remote Learning: In this unit, we will discuss how to set up classroom procedures in a Remote Learning context, including sending and receiving content, maintaining connections with students.
• Unit 2: Bringing SEL to Remote Learning: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) focuses on helping learners understand and manage emotions, set goals, set and achieve goals, show empathy for others, maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. In this unit, we will learn how to bring SEL practices to your Remote Learning classroom, and how to identify and address the social and emotional needs of your students.
• Unit 3: Maintaining Connections with Students and Families: In the time of COVID-19, many families and students are struggling with daily realities including managing working from home while teaching students, having to go to work while students have to remain home, food insecurity, family illness, or loss of income. This unit will cover strategies to support and maintain connections with families in uncertain times.
• Unit 4: Selecting Digital Content: With all of the resources available on the Internet, selecting high-quality, appropriate content for all students can be a challenge. This unit will support locating, identifying, and vetting content to pick the best resources for your Remote Learning classroom.
• Unit 5: Supporting Populations with Special Needs: This unit will address and provide strategies to support students with disabilities, learning differences, English Language Learners, and other students with unique academic and social-emotional needs.
• Unit 6: Providing Feedback and Assessment: This unit will dive deep into providing high-quality feedback to students remotely through a variety of media. We’ll also dig in to how to assess student learning and adapt instruction in new ways.