Distance Learning Road Map

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by Erin Fought1 view·Updated Jun 27, 2020
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  1. Hey, everybody.
  2. This is the timeline that I've created to detail my
  3. experience with distance learning this spring and also how I've
  4. reflected and plan to move forward in the upcoming school
  5. year. So when school initially shut down in March, I
  6. don't think anyone really knew what was going to be
  7. expected. So as we waited for more guidance, our school
  8. leader had us come in and create individualized packets for
  9. our students to be picked up by their families to
  10. get the kids working.
  11. In the meantime, families were able to rent Chromebooks at
  12. this time as well, and I made sure that I
  13. connected with my family is using class dodo Ah, Google
  14. classroom text phone calls so that we had a way
  15. to communicate as we waited for further instructions in April
  16. is really when a more formal plan was established for
  17. distance learning.
  18. So our school wide plan consisted of three rounds of
  19. instruction We did review for three weeks new content for
  20. three weeks, and then we did project based learning.
  21. For the remaining two weeks, we ah made chromebook rentals
  22. available for families package distribution for each of the three
  23. cycles of learning and each teacher uploaded learning videos that
  24. went with their packets, which were uploaded to our school
  25. YouTube channel, our school Facebook page.
  26. Most teachers posted these videos, their videos to their school
  27. classroom class, Tojo pages.
  28. And I know most teachers, including myself frequently.
  29. No, we're calling and texting to check in with families
  30. and students and make sure everybody was good during this
  31. time. So now that those cycles of learning have come
  32. to an end, it was kind of time for me
  33. to reflect on what worked and what didn't work during
  34. this spring, when we had to do the distance learning.
  35. So some things that I thought had room for improvement,
  36. where I had very low student engagement.
  37. Despite the efforts, um, on behalf of the school and
  38. myself to make the material accessible to as many students
  39. as possible, I still did not have many students that
  40. were completing the workers submitting the work.
  41. I also found that I really did not have a
  42. formal assessment process and the grades were effort based.
  43. There was they were given a complete or an incomplete
  44. during each of the eight weeks and then at the
  45. end of the eight weeks a progress report was sent
  46. home to family is letting them know how they did
  47. during each of the eight weeks.
  48. So I really took this time to figure out How
  49. can I improve the assessment process?
  50. That's the course component that I chose to focus on.
  51. So the area is where I wanted to really focus.
  52. Moving forward.
  53. I want to make sure that I had a backwards
  54. design process in place, giving students a choice in the
  55. type of assignments that they completely use.
  56. Different platforms, do different types of assessments, do some informal
  57. assessments, just some formal assessments and make the rubrics available
  58. to I'm the families.
  59. So they also know what is expected.
  60. So moving forward to the 2021 school year.
  61. Um, I really want to make sure that students and
  62. families are trained on the various platforms that I plan
  63. to use during when we might have to complete distance
  64. learning in the future.
  65. I think part of what might have been holding some
  66. families back as they felt overwhelmed as well, not only
  67. because of he already stressful time, but because off the
  68. fact that they might not have known how to use
  69. Google Classroom as well.
  70. A ZX as the students and with me teaching younger
  71. students. I teach third grade some of the third graders,
  72. even though we use Google Classroom in the classroom.
  73. They weren't independent enough with it to complete it at
  74. home. So if their families weren't really able toe to
  75. help them with that, that might have gotten in the
  76. way of some of my students, um, completing some of
  77. the distance learning.
  78. So I really think that our school needs toe provide
  79. some kind of training for the platforms that we plan
  80. on using moving forward.
  81. I really like the idea of giving students a choice.
  82. So giving them the choice of completing a hands on
  83. project or in online project or doing a video presentation
  84. for those larger unit assessments.
  85. Um, so keeping the content matter the same but allowing
  86. them to show their understanding and demonstrate what they learned
  87. in different ways.
  88. Um, having formal and informal assessments, um, that aligned with
  89. the objectives and align with the I can statements that
  90. are planned out.
  91. So I plan to use Google forms for some of
  92. the more informal assessments and for the more formal assessments.
  93. I like Teoh.
  94. I would like to give them a choice moving forward.
  95. Like I said before, Um, one of my group members,
  96. I think, highly mentioned having student led discussions based on
  97. readings where she gives them sentence stems and discussion questions
  98. that come from the reading.
  99. And I really like that idea that she brought up,
  100. and I plan to use that moving forward as well.
  101. I think having a rubric available just like rubrics were
  102. available for us, for families on the different projects and
  103. assessment so that they know what's expected.
  104. Um, I plan to utilize the technology in my classroom
  105. when I do have the kids in the classroom to
  106. a much fuller extent than I did before.
  107. So teaching the kids how to use the portfolio section
  108. of the class toe Joe doing much more with Google
  109. Classroom Flip grid was another resource that I found out
  110. about during this time that I plan to use so
  111. that they're so comfortable with it in the classroom that
  112. when it translates to or when we have to transform
  113. the online, um, the kids are more independent and might
  114. not need as much help from the adults and making
  115. sure that students get immediate feedback from me in a
  116. way that works best for the parents.
  117. So whether that's, ah, you know, an email feedback or
  118. on a Google doc, if I can give them feedback
  119. that way, just figuring out what works best for, um
  120. each family and giving them feedback in a timely manner.