Friday, August 7, 2020

Teaching Tips for Online Synchronous Learning

 Here are some tips for teaching online:

How to Build an Online Learning Community (In 2020) (7 minute read)

https://www.learnworlds.com/build-online-learning-community/#Whatis

Get to know students - Either have them fill out a Google Form or a Google Doc

  • Ask student what they want to be called

  • Ask students how to to pronounce their names

  • Ask student their pronoun (Cis-hetero) -  he/him/his, she/her/hers, or they/them/theirs

  • Goals for this course/what do they want to learn

  • Have a couple of playlist with songs to start class with or play in the middle of class with calming music and upbeat music


Daily Ice-breakers

  • Teacher share screen so students know the order they will go in

  • Favorite and why

    • Board game

    • Card game

    • Color

    • Number

    • Sport or Activity

    • Subject in school

    • TV Show

    • Movie

    • Book

    • Musician