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How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?
I am hoping to learn and borrow ideas from fellow educators! We are all going through this COVID time together, and many of us our struggling in similar ways. Reading about others struggles and what worked for them can be very affirming and valuable. We were all thrust into remote rather quickly and had to learn in the moment, having this time to reflect and sort out what was beneficial can help me improve my teaching as we move forward for in person and possibly more remote teaching down the line.

What are your intentions/goals for learning in this course?
My goal is to become more familiar with online resources/applications that I am not versed in. I want to find ways to get students motivated and engaged through technology, in case we need to go remote again. I need to find a way to manage planning, direct on-line instruction with students and helping students get work completed.

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I predict this course will be valuable to me in many ways. Because I am a Digital Learning Specialist, I am very curious about the experiences and needs of diverse educators, students, parents, support staff and administrators across the state regarding remote learning. I want to learn as much as I can about diverse perspectives so I can better support my community. I am curious about the experiences of those in other districts: what worked, what didn't.
What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
I am also here to hone my skills, and I hope to learn more about best practices for technology integration - especially instructional videos, organization tools and other methods for capturing the attention of students in an online learning context!

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Usefulness/Value of this course for me:

1.       Hearing the experiences from other educators and gaining insights from their experiences about the pedagogical approaches that have worked best in their contexts. Considering we are going to be virtual again for (at least) the first two months of this course, I hope this will help me understand the teachers I am responsible for in the IB Diploma Programme as coordinator, with a better understanding of the complexities experienced across the whole school as well.

2.       Compassion Fatigue. While we acknowledged this, it was not yet feeling serious enough to address. We were lucky in the first year to escape most of the crisis due to the country staying relatively protected from COVID directly. But now, with Delta variant sweeping through, I think our community will now experience what most people in the US experienced. I am grateful the book for the course has this as the first module.

Intentions/Goals for my learning in this course:

1.       Use the effective online learning statements as a model for the IB DP teachers in our first two weeks preparing for online learning.

2.       Glean experiences from other teachers experiences with Compassion Fatigue and use this to better understand teachers in our context.

3.       Revise several lessons for my AP Seminar course for a better virtual experience. I would like to build in more asynchronous elements for the skills, focus on the formative feedback and regular summative (every 2 weeks). While it only requires one lesson, I hope to use the self-assessment of online teaching to consider how I might create a routine lesson or approach that will give the students a sense of regularity.

4.       I like the idea of exploring the “Building a virtual community” for the choice module. I am not sure what that means yet, but I might like to focus on the virtual community of teachers for PD or providing space for educators in our community to connect. Or I might apply it directly to the courses I teach.

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I think this course will be valuable to me by teaching me  different ways to shape instruction that not only can reach student's remotely, but also by expanding my classroom connections with families, and by also helping student's develop their self reliance.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
My intentions for this course is to develop more tools for remote learning. I have used the Flipped Classroom model quite heavily in the past and I feel that this course can provide me with more tools and practices to incorporate into that model. I also think ti will help me to reshape my curriculum planning in the future with new skills to help students become more independent and self-driven.

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I have been looking forward to taking this course. I have worked in education for several years in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Now that I am taking a short time off from classroom teaching to be home with my young children, I am trying to continue to educate myself in current teaching practices. I think this course will be valuable to me because it will provide me with more knowledge and confidence with any future virtual teaching experiences.  I am hoping to learn more about digital tools used for various ages and most effective teaching methods from the other experienced educators in this course and the module activities. I am also eager to learn how teachers differentiated effectively in their virtual classrooms.  This was always challenging for me with in-person teaching so I am interested to hear how virtual differentiation worked.

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I think this course will be valuable for me in many ways. First, I am excited to learn about experiences and successes that other NH teachers encountered during remote teaching and the pandemic that may be useful in my teaching. Second, I am eager to discover ways to work with at-risk student populations that encourage online participation and learning. Finally, I can tell that this is going to be a class where I can actively learn and reflect with colleagues with similar interests.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

I would like to become more confident and competent as a remote ESOL teacher.  Also, I want to discover ways to keep students engaged, to complete classroom assignments, and to encourage attendance. During remote learning, many of my ELLs did not attend classes regularly or complete work, even work that was at their appropriate proficiency levels.

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I see this course as an opportunity to reflect on the past year.  Remote teaching has been a whirlwind!  I haven't had time to stop and think about what went well, what didn't, and what I want to work on.  I can already see that the assignments in this course will will provide time to reflect on this unorthodox teaching experience and find focus in the process.  In addition to self-reflection, I feel that our shared learning will provide further insight and ideas.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My goal for taking this course is to find ways to incorporate the effective remote teaching strategies I learned into the in-person classroom. Remote teaching was transformational for me as an educator. I feel that this course will help me take what I have learned and expand upon it. I don't want my learning to remain solely with remote instruction. I feel that many aspects of remote learning can be implemented within my in-person instruction to engage students and promote academic achievement. Additionally, there will always be the possibility of utilizing remote instruction again, as we have shown that it can be done. This course will only help me prepare for that possibility.

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I am looking forward to discuss with other teachers about methods and activities that worked and did not work for them in the past school year.  I want to expand the tools in my toolbox to engage my students better than I did this past year.  I also want to learn strategies on how to successfully pivot from in school learning to online learning.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My goal is to be a better teacher for all my students no matter what environment we are in.  I want to become aware faster of the students who are not engaged in a lesson so I might use a different strategy to engage these students.  It was difficult to do this with black screens most of the year.  If needed, I want the transition to online learning to not be painful for students and their families as well as myself.

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I am excited to collaborate with other teachers during this course and learn what worked and didn’t work for them in their own virtual teaching experiences. It will be valuable to hear from other professionals in different school settings and see how I can tweak it to create a more engaging learning experience for the younger learners I work with.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

I hope to learn how to create effective online learning experiences for the younger learners and how to maximize their engagement during online learning. I would like to learn how I can work towards preparing learners to flexibly participate between in-person and online learning.  I also hope to learn more strategies how to effectively build communities and support families of younger learners during remote learning.

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I feel this course is a valuable resource to bring clearly into focus the enduring skills and dispositions necessary for educators like myself in 21st century education. I like that we are dealing with online learning while at the same time learning online!

As a goal I want to understand more in-depth how student motivation and engagement can benefit from online learning. What makes students engaged or not when it comes to online education? How can we as educators improve the learning experience for our students? How can I as an educator grow and learn the skills I need to provide my students the best learning experience I can make available to them?

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I am looking forward to collaborating with other educators on tips and tricks to make online learning more effective. I'd also like to investigate ways to engage students who were uncertain working in a remote learning setting.
Ultimately, I'd like to feel completely prepared to pivot to a remote learning setting if/when needed. I'd like to be prepared for more of a seamless transition so that students and families can feel successful and confident.

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I think this course will increase my effectiveness with technology and online learning. I am hoping to learn new skills and formats that I can incorporate into my teaching and use with students with significant disabilities.
I am familiar with Padlet, Canvas and Google classroom. My personal goal is to learn ways to increase my knowledge of how to use them, and other formats, more effectively for online learning.

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I think this course will prove essential for me to learn more online resources that I can incorporate into classroom instruction, and should we need to go to virtual learning this year, be ready on day 1 to get to it. I want to be confident and certain that I am providing my students with the best practice possible.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
My goal for taking this course is to obtain the skills and understanding of the quality online resources available to me. I want to know what they are and how to best utilize them. I also want to learn from my colleagues and establish a forum where I can reach out to them, and be able to support them if need be. My goal is to approach this coming year with confidence and certainty.

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This year I was remote for 3/4 of the year. During that time,  I had a crash course with many programs. I hope that this class will help me slow down and really figure out how I can incorporate different tools, programs, and ideologies into my online teaching. I hope to continue to find ways to make online learning enjoyable, especially to the students who are hardest to engage.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
I hope to create lessons that could be taught both in person or online, to have an organized online system to track benchmarks and lessons that are tailored to those results, and to use that online space to collaborate with other teachers.

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As stated in the course description and reinforced in the readings, online learning is here to stay in some capacity.  I believe that one of the best ways to learn is by listening to the experiences of other teachers successes and struggles.  Without support from fellow teachers, the pandemic teaching would have been impossible, I hope to broaden that network of support.
I believe that the world has changed post pandemic in the way people in general communicate and conduct business, schools and classrooms must change also. I'm unsure what that looks like but hope that by the end of the course I will have a clearer picture.

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I am hoping to learn about and practice with new tools that will help me create a more robust, engaging, and accessible online environment for students. Already, exposure to things like Padlet (which I knew about but never actually used) is helpful.

My goal in taking this course is to create more virtual opportunities for my students I think it is important to embrace the strengths and advantages of online learning. I saw some students really take off while learning virtually and I think that a learning space without the physical component of the classroom works well for some, even if it is supplementary.

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I think this course will be valuable to me because I will learn and hopefully have a better vision of how education might (hopefully!) change in the next five years. When I received this email from the DOE (emails I usually ignore, sorry!), I was very excited to see how visionary NH was in offering this to teachers. I also really enjoy reading the experiences, perspectives, and opinions of other teachers.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

I hope to create my own vision of my class for the post-2020 environment. I also hope to gain more knowledge to be able to help move my department to incorporate a variety of instructional methods and tools. Ultimately, I hope at the high school level, we see more hybrid type classes in which students could be face to face for 2-3 days and then do asynchronous work at their own pace for 2-3 days. But in order for that to happen, more students, teachers, administrators, and parents need to believe in online/remote learning.

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I predict that there will be lots of collegial sharing of what worked and what didn't work during the remote teaching/learning.  This is what I'm hoping for.  Although I have a great relationship with my colleagues at the CTE center, I am the only person in my district who teaches what I do, and the only one who splits time between CTE and regular HS classes.  I'm hoping to learn about new ideas and perspectives from a variety of colleagues across the state.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
I want to bring fresh, new ideas back to our CTE center.  Although we are a tight-knit group and share a lot, the focus is often on individual content or DoK assessments, not on general delivery and engagement ideas.  Going remote again is still a distinct possibility for some students and I want to better prepare my 'tool box'.

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This year I was able to teach remotely, in person, and remotely and in person at the same time but I'm not sure if I was effective. I want to be able to have more tools to make it meaningful and be able to teach with out "watering it down." I think that this course can help me develop tools and learn new skills when it comes to remote teaching. Padlet, for example, it a resource that I have never used and Can now utilize it in the future if I need to.
What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
My intentions and goals are to learn more skills and resources so that if I am teaching virtually again, I will be able to make it meaningful, engaging, and as detailed as if I had everyone in class.

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I'm hopeful that hearing from a variety of educators in schools across the state will help me build a community in the virtual void. While I have a very supportive school community, one of the difficult things to negotiate in our remote reality last year was feeling isolated from the rest of my department/school. It seems to me that it's critical to establish ways for educators to feel plugged into something larger than just their own classes on Google. That, in turn, I hope will allow students to feel engaged as well.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
I want to connect with other educators and develop techniques for students to be more engaged within a virtual curriculum . . . and for me to feel that way as well!

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How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?
As a school counselor in what is likely a classroom teacher based course, I hope to learn how I can support teachers/instructors in a remote learning environment.  I want to support students and my teaching colleagues in feeling confident and supported in teaching and learning online.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
I hope to connect professionally with other educators in this course. I want to learn more about using various platforms of technology as I continue to interact with students (and their parents), and teachers/instructors in an online learning environment.

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I look forward to hearing how other teachers around the state managed the past 16 months of teaching. What worked really well for others? What did people do to take care of themselves when the day-to-day became overwhelming? Connecting with other educators who also just went through one of their hardest years ever will be helpful as I prepare for the next year.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
I hope to learn strategies for reaching out to students who are not engaging in the virtual classroom. What are things I can do as a teacher to "check the temp" during virtual teaching and bring back students and families who may have fallen off the radar?