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"Ideal learning experience" in your classroom, building and/or district?  Be specific about 'structures' that will/could be different.

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"Ideal learning experience" in your classroom, building and/or district?  Be specific about 'structures' that will/could be different.

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Collaborating on putting together PD around Google Classroom; teams training; technology skills; How do you teach online and what it looks like

The trainings have been district-wide.  There are some systems that are moving to full platforms.

Waiting to provide training a week before school starts is pretty stressful for teachers.  Training should have happened in June.

Using Google Teams to replace Zoom.  Learning curve for Microsoft Teams is steeper.  Google Meet and Microsoft Teams will be merging in the fall.   A nice feature for Teams is that it saves everything for that meeting, whereas Zoom does not.

Districts are attempting to provide more inservice for staff at the beginning of the school year to prepare.

Learning management system will be Schoolagy.

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-using zoom breakout rooms for small group instruction.
-reconstructing/designing rotational stations to make sure they are safe and effective for students
-individual manipulatives/baggies
-individual books

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opportunities for growth -steep learning curve
finding balance

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-Kindergarten websites as reference (Virtual Teaching with Mr. Greg)
-Online ideas
-"Beeckel Bootcamp" - teaching guidelines and rules for the year. Need some extra time this year to get everything in place
- Busy Bags - Amazon

-Want a visual for next year - classroom, what learning will look like?

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It’s about empowering and relationships, collaboration

Barrier with communicating, forcing us to change business model because of uncertainty

Opportunity to dialogue to plan ideal learning experiences

Not isolate but work together

Easy to go negative when we don’t have enough guidance, find groups that we can connect with through the uncertainty and get ideas

Stay positive not negative and will make for a long year…

Advice… prepare to teach fully on-line (LMS) baseline practices

Don’t hope for live then not be prepared to jump in..

Asynchronis is where you do new content and use live sessions for dialogue and thinking skills.. promote efficacy; not the place for independence practice.
Flipped pedagoy

Needing to transition teachers rather than throw them in doing it all.  Farmington NH 1st 6 week fully remote and then weaning in face to face with safety precautions

Travis shared out what they are doing for structural work in their school system.. modeled after Cornville Charter School... Gradeless school.  Really promotes relationships, flexible groupings, teachers assigned content standards

Discussed LMS... Canvas, Schoology, OTUS, and Empower.

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small grouping online (similar to what we are doing right now)

We discussed our plan for learning. Districts that have more focused plans have better allowed their teachers to plan. Districts that have 4 different plans in place have created an incredible amount of unknown variables so it is difficult to plan as teachers.

Creating "ideal learning" in this new environment means that student needs, parent needs, and teacher needs all need to be considered. Some choices need to be offered because having choice is important.

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-lots of uncertainties about what the classroom will look like.

How does one provide structure with the new regulations?

We discussed how we use learning platforms to manage students. We are familiar with SeeSaw and Empower. We feel that it is more important now than ever to be aware of what learning targets students have mastered and which they are working on.

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-Use of online resources
-Collaboration
-Target students specifically
-Makes grouping and regrouping more feasible.
-Building stronger relationships

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Have to be creative. Be open to try new ideas. 

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Have to be creative. Be open to try new ideas. 

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Collaborate with colleagues.

Training for technology platforms.

Try to work in the present/immediate future because things are going to change so much as the year goes along.

Reworking schedules to accommodate traveling teachers.

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- Teachers stay within same target area in regards to pacing.
-Sharing lessons
-Hybrid
-Microsoft Teams small groups

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What opportunities do you see to better customize and provide the “Ideal Learning Experience” in your classroom, building, and/or district? Be specific about the “structures” that will/could be different.

Don’t know what the ideal LE looks like.

Smaller groups means more focused instruction. Teaching one lesson to two different groups gives you time to reflect on what did and didn’t go well and how to improve for session 2.

How do you keep them apart?

Not sure how to pull it off; what we used to do is not what we are going to be able to do.

Live streaming lessons in class.

Confidentiality concerns about student privacy.

Finding resources that aren’t overwhelming or constricting.

State of Maine “Bright Space” Distance learning program. Build a dynamic interactive website.

We are working ground up and figuring it out as we go.

Hard to plan for unknown.

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practice remote learning during in person school

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practice remote learning during in person school

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worried about how to meet social

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Staying the Same
Feels that very little will be staying the same
School population is so small, which makes it pretty easy.  They will still have small groups, 5 periods a day.

What is changing?
The challenge will be how to integrate the online versus the in person learning.  They will be utilizing moving cameras.
May not be able to have the typical RTI blocks where students are mixed based on skill and not grade level.  Students will be mixed into many different groups.  How do we maintain the small data based groups for RTI in this new world?

Structure:
Instructional decisions may take a back seat to safety decisions.

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Discussed balancing parenting and teaching...

Charles shared starting with connections not doing something new

Adam stated he needs to reteaching school in new environment...

Shared how the kindergarten students will be as seniors

Discussed doing things in digestible bite...

Planning differently is necessary...
Misty shared having to redesign curriculum to leverage all 3 part thinking, content, habits... less content (essential)

Charles discussed how he has to change his curriculum for this... What will change? Less of mental parts of music more with emotional connection to music

Discussed space redesign and how COVID effected that...

Adam talked about supplies and needing to be organized and have things for every single kid

Talked about project based learning, group work, and teaching those skills like sharing...

Adam talked about the philosophy and method of teaching with project based learning

Concern about how teachers will be evaluated with this...

Attendance is going to be a key factor in fully remote or hybrid...

Discussed a lot of veteran teachers are choosing to leave the profession