Online Teaching Techniques: Stop-animation Videos
(Th May 28, 6-7:30 pm EDT) Combat attrition with engaging assignments that can be sculpted to the student’s abilities and interest. Stop-animation videos are short movies made with a series of photos taken from the same position and a handful of items that can be moved about to create a story. In this workshop you […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Developing Curiosity
(M June 1, 4-5:30 pm EDT) In this workshop, we will practice a repeatable structure for introducing a topic that will be studied through scientific exploration using a remote teaching and learning platform. We will help our students conduct a preliminary investigation at home developing interest in a particular phenomenon by generating data and making […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Developing Curiosity
(Tu June 2, 2-3:30 pm EDT) Struggling to teach a lab-based science course using remote learning? In this workshop, we will practice a repeatable structure for introducing a topic that will be studied through scientific exploration using a remote teaching and learning platform. We will help our students conduct a preliminary investigation at home to […]
Making Contingency Plans: Vertical Team Planning for a Reduced Syllabus
This workshop is aimed at bringing K-12 teachers together to identify the essential skills that need to be targeted in a curriculum that is reduced by remote teaching. Based on the speed and depth of learning that has been achieved so far using remote learning, we know teaching may be reduced to a bare minimum […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 2 Writing a Procedure
(W June 3, 12-1:30 pm EDT) This workshop will pick up where Part 1 of this series left off. We begin with a list of variables our students have identified as potentially impacting a particular phenomenon they have explored. Using a think-pair-share process, we will give students the structure needed to write steps for a […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 3 Analyzing Collected Data
(W June 3, 4-5:30 pm EDT) This workshop will continue to build on the skills taught in Parts 1 and 2 for teaching a science course using remote learning. Teachers will play the role of the students, collecting data in their own homes and pooling their observations and measurements in a spreadsheet shared by their […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Conclusions
(Th June 4, 2-3:30 pm EDT) This workshop will focus on the content and demands of the conclusion section of a lab report, with applications to data-based questions and internal assessments for IB students, and free response questions for AP students. The conclusions drawn from experimental data must be limited to the scope of the […]
Claim-Evidence-Reasoning: Using Debates in an Online Classroom
(M June 8, 2-3:30 pm EDT) An exciting way to engage your students in their online class is to use a topic that sparks discussion, research, and the desire to sleuth out additional information. In this workshop, teachers will participate in a debate in an asynchronous platform (such as Google Classroom) and in a synchronous […]
Remote Teaching and Learning: Part 1 Setting Up Your Asynchronous Classes
(M June 8, 6-7:30 pm EDT) The purpose of this 1.5-hour workshop is to organize your teaching load into discrete groups that you can access so contact is continuous throughout the time school is closed. I will guide you through the process of creating virtual classrooms using a program called Google Classroom.* This program allows […]
Claim-Evidence-Reasoning: Helping Students Discern Fact from Fiction
(Tu June 9, 2-3:30pm EDT) Information is available from an unlimited number of sources and accessible to anyone. And, anyone who desires can make information available to the masses regardless of its factual or fictitious nature. How are we able to determine what information is reliable and what is suspect? In this workshop, we will […]