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by Terry Heick

Remote teaching and learning have gotten me thinking recently about less about what we teach or even why (two things I tend to think about the most), and more about how we teach (also a critical concept)-which has brought me to the idea of joy.

In a 2014 post, Where Has The Joy Of Learning Gone, neurologist Judy Willis explained, "The truth is that when the joy and comfort are scrubbed from the classroom and replaced with homogeneity and when spontaneity is replaced with conformity, students' brains are distanced from effective information processing and long-term memory storage."

So then, the idea of joy in learning. Not joy for the emotional benefits but for the neurological effect and the residual human 'lifting' and growth that occurs when emotion and understanding occur together. (See also Why Emotion Is More Important Than Understanding.)

Obviously, there's a lot more to the idea of 'joy' in learning than 'tips and hacks.' That said, here are 20 ways that might be useful-in a time of stress, uncertainty, and at times great difficulty-to bring some joy back into your classroom. Many of these apply to remote teaching/remote classrooms as well, but these ideas are intended for teaching in general rather than pandemic-only teaching.

20 Ways To Bring The Joy Back To Your Classroom

1. Let students lead

Empower students-support them and get out of their way. In part, this is the difference of 'push' teaching versus 'pull' teaching.

Not only are students (generally) more energetic, imaginative, but your role shifts and the dynamic of the classroom itself shifts from a teacher having 'strong classroom management skills' to 'children are engaged and leading their own learning experiences.' Properly-structured and supported, this can lead to a joyful classroom.

In a remote classroom, this potential depends heavily on lesson and unit design. Letting a 2nd-grader 'lead' a Zoom lesson on fractions is takes more than a little imagination. But if you do so-maybe message them before classroom and ask them to each demonstrate a fraction visually using a prop of their choice-at the very least, engagement improves.

2. Use team-building

Community and togetherness and fraternity bring trust and interdependence-and ultimately can lead to joy. Here are some examples of team-building games that promote critical thinking to get you started. I'll try to find some remote teaching and learning team-building games sometime this week.

3. Be human

Being joyful is a hallmark of being human, so it makes sense that being human can 'cause' joy. Figuring out what this means to you-in your classroom with your students-is your starting point and then, through ongoing dialogue with students (and recognition what is and is not working), finding out how 'human' your classroom should be for students to grow.

The world isn't perfect and virtual learning environments don't have to be, either. If something doesn't work or a dog barks or the PowerPoint won't upload, it's frustrating but is also an opportunity to humanize the learning-and learning process.

4. Use 'human' project-based learning

Piggy-backing on the concept above, project-based learning moves the learning out of the classroom. It also can shift learning from 'learn how to calculate the area of a rectangle' to 'learning how to calculate the area of a rectangle so you can design urban garden spaces of local, sustainable food sources.'

Using PBL to solve human problems and improve human well-being results in more joy, right?

5. Don't grade everything

This is something I talk a lot about. Teaching seemed completely overwhelming to me until I figured this out. I'll write more about this but the idea is reduced teacher workload, which reduces fatigue and allows you to focus more on the parts of the job you love. It also has the secondary benefit of more engaging lessons and units, too.

6. Give optional work

Homework, for example.

Giving more assignments doesn't seem like it'd lead to 'joy,' but the idea is that every student has the opportunity to improve and grow. Whether they want to deepen their understanding of something they're curious or passionate about or just want to improve their letter grade, optional work is a kind of freedom to grow and can shift the gravity in the classroom from 'teacher' to 'student' through the gift of choice.

7. Know what each child needs

Some students need teachers, some need champions-and it's not always easy to know what they need and when.

Learning to 'ignore the misbehavior' was a useful classroom management strategy for me during my first few years of teaching. Students are human and make poor decisions at times. Part of good teaching is changing the feedback loops in the classroom.

When a student demonstrates this behavior, this happens. When they demonstrate another, something else happens. By changing those feedback loops, students can move from entertaining the class or protecting their reputation with peers or other 'misbehaviors' to listening, asking questions, and (just maybe) improving skills.

Every child is on their own schedule no matter how much you push. Having a big heart and a short memory helps give every child a chance to grow-and a chance to bring joy to your classroom.

8. Teach (and learn) with mindfulness

Among other ideas, mindfulness is about living in the moment with focused awareness on the richness of that moment through the five senses. Research is clear that this lowers anxiety, reduces stress, and improves well-being. If you can not just teach this as a practice but actually use it to teach and learn, your classroom has a chance to be a calmer, happier place.

Consider starting your class with meditation-or even 30 seconds of 'it's okay to be quiet' silence. Then throughout the class, point out opportunities for mindfulness for students: a sound or visual or emotion or smile. Anything that grounds the lesson and helps students begin to appreciate the texture of 'moments'-even those spent in digital environments.

9. Use microassignments

Quick 'microassignments' that isolate individual learning standards and objectives are low-stress for both the student and teacher. They're also great ways to provide data, useful for additive grading (see below), and are great formative assessment tools, as well.

10. Read Aloud

Everyone loves to be read to, from pre-K students through college. Even adults. Further, this can be done in any content area. Short stories, picture books, quick essays, plays, and more are all useful here. Reading interesting, funny, heart-warming, and otherwise moving 'things' aloud is a simple way to bring joy back into your classroom.

11. Honor your own limits

The fact is, you're nowhere the most significant contributor to your students' performance in the classroom. In fact, it's arguable if you're even in the top 10. This doesn't change your goal of being the very best teacher you can be but it should relieve you of the burden of 'saving' every child. That mindset is rarely sustainable over a career for a teacher.

Instead, honor your limits, then teach like your hair's on fire (in the very best possible way) and honor the uncertainty that comes with living-and teaching and learning, too.

12. Make your classroom a safe place

To the degree you can, make your classroom safe from bullying and sarcasm and toxicity and internet trolls and pressure and anxiety and again, to the extent you are able-replace those things with books and music and laughter and vulnerability and humility and conversation and growth.

13. Tell personal stories

See #3 above.

Obviously, be careful here. But my middle and high school students loved hearing about my life. That my parents divorced when I was 12 and how hard that was. That I was bullied at times. That I once stole baseball cards as a child and still carry that burden with me to this day. That I play video games and listen to music loud and am terrified of armadillos.

Boundaries are important and oversharing is a real concern. If you're not sure, don't share. The idea isn't to share deeply personal and shadowy secrets. Rather, the goal is to humanize yourself and by sharing stories about your interactions over the years with others, provide a kind of a hopefully healthy and empathetic model for how to view others.

14. Teach students how to have a conversation

One way to bring joy back into your classroom is to teach students how to have a conversation and a big part of this is to teach students to really, truly listen to one another (without simply waiting for your turn to talk and spotting things you disagree with). When people feel heard and understood, they tend to feel safer, more connected, and often willing to work harder for themselves and those around them.

This requires you to practice listening to students. It's so easy to fall into the teach and control pattern that rather than listening to students, we're instead listening for opportunities to teach and correct. You'll never correct anyone to a state of joy.

15. Use the Habits of Mind

You can read What Are The Habits Of Mind? and Strategies For Bringing The Habits Of Mind Into Your Classroom.

16. Listen to music

Music and rhythm have been lifting human beings up since the dawn of time. The quickest way to shift your classroom from a square room to a joyful place is to turn good music up loud enough for the principal to duck their head in the room wondering what all the fuss is about.

Obviously, what you play and how loudly you play it will depend on your classroom management style, the age of the students, and a million other factors. As always, use your best judgment.

17. Shift from 'classrooms' to 'learning spaces'

Use virtual reality field trips. Google Earth. Actual field trips. Even Skyping with people in your local community and around the world. At minimum, help the student work leave the classroom. At best, help students leave the classroom, too. You can read more about these kinds of shifts here in Shifts To Classroom Of The Future.

Whether you're remote teaching or teaching in a physical classroom, the future of learning is certainly at least some kind of blended, hybrid approach of physical and digital spaces. While this has its challenges, it also has incredible potential. Virtual reality alone can take you and your students almost anywhere. Connections with other communities are cultures are possible. Content can be more engaging. Teacher workload-designed properly-can be reduced.

When the world is the classroom, you're no longer the sole architect of all learning design. The design and authoring of these experiences shifts from you to students-or at least more in that direction, anyway.

Immersion. Engagement. New workflow. New connections. New content forms. I don't mean to over-romanticize these ideas. It rarely works out like we hope. But the potential for new learning spaces and dynamics and forms at least represents an opportunity for a different kind of resonance-and hopefully, joy.

18. Consider additive grading

This seems weak compared to some of the others, but embedded in the idea of additive grading is hope. With this alternative to 'regular' grading, students have the chance to always be adding to their grade (the letter grade being a source of anxiety for many) rather than risking a 'bad grade' and lowering their 'score.'

Gamification can be useful for some students, too.

19. Be consistent without being predictable

Structure and consistency lead to organization (which leads to learning). But like tropes in storytelling, if they're overdone, they're uninteresting, reduce creative tension, and train the brain of students to not expect anything different. Ever.

Defying expectation is a powerful strategy for joy.

20. Use humor

Tell jokes. Laugh at absurdity. Read funny stories, poems, and plays. Find humor in the mundane.
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A friend of mine texted me yesterday, "I just quit a Peloton ride midstream. Not engaging. Nothing that made me feel like it was for me. The instructor was in her own world. There has to be something to grab me or else I quit!" Now, I must admit when I first read her text, I thought, "NO WAY!" I have a serious love for my Peloton and my instructors. I couldn't believe she didn't feel connected and engaged. But then I realized there have been a few (although rare) instances when I too didn't engage with the instructor and wanted to quit.

This of course made me realize how critically important engagement is when doing anything, but it seems like through a screen the need for engagement is compounded ten fold. Now add the extra element of teaching children through a screen and, well, I don't have to explain the challenges related to that. We are all living that right now!

What does engagement mean?

When talking about engagement, it is important to first clarify how I define it. Engagement isn't about a teacher running a circus act in hopes that learning will be fun or entertaining. That may be important, but real engagement is about getting students cognitively involved in the content or learning. One of the many mottos that I teach by is, "Whoever is doing the talking, is doing the thinking." Therefore, I'm always asking myself, "How can I get the students doing the talking, the thinking, the practice?"

Distance Learning has certainly thrown me a curve ball and has really forced me to reflect more critically about ways to engage students when teaching through a screen. It has also made me realize that my go-to engagement move of "turn and talk" isn't so easily accomplished as it once was. I've been experimenting with a lot of ways to engage students virtually and wanted to share my collection of strategies here in hopes they help you.

In place of turn and talk:

Mute yourself and talk out-loud to your stuffy or to yourself. Prompt kids to get in close to the computer so you can watch them talk.

Unmute and say it aloud synchronously. Yes, this could be a little chaotic, but everyone has a chance to lift their voice and to engage with the content.

Use the chat box to respond. You could ask students to chat to Everyone or ask students to chat only with their partner in the chat box. (important note: if using zoom, you will not be able to see the partnership chat until after the meeting is over.) For our youngest learners, possibly just typing a letter as a response would suffice (t for true and f for false).

BREAKOUT ROOMS (set timers) and let students talk, practice, and try the strategy. If you are using Zoom, breakout rooms are a great tool to support students with engagement. Pro tip: be sure to set up breakout rooms as students are logging on for the day. One easy way to set up breakout rooms is to ask students to rename themselves with a certain number or letter in front of their name. This makes it a lot easier for you to quickly match partners or groups of students. If you aren't using Zoom, I hear that Google Meets is working on that feature and it should be available this Fall.

For more information on setting up break out rooms check this out: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206476093-Enabling-breakout-rooms

Tap into tech tools: Padlet, Jamboard, or shared Google Documents. Use one of these platforms for students to engage with the content you want them to practice. For example, set up a jamboard for students to do a picture/letter sort or for older students they can do "play your post-it" game. Padlet is an amazing tool for students to record their thinking because of its accessibility for students. Kids can write, voice record, make a video, or take a picture to respond.

Here is a sample Padlet I created to have teachers respond during a recent staff development session. This will give you the idea of how students can engage in either a synchronous or asynchronous conversation.
https://padlet.com/inspirelitcoach/n2wbiend4zn1s8ul

Stop and Jot in notebook, on post-it, in digital notebook, on shared google document.

Give students white boards. Have students jot responses and hold it up to the screen. This method works great with phonics, math, or any time you are looking for quick responses from students. Pro tip: have students hold up their boards all at once, prompt them to hold still, make sure you are in gallery view, take a screenshot. This would be a great way to get quick data on kids.

The silver lining of this pandemic is that it has forced me to reflect on my teaching practices. I am forever changed and will think twice before going back to the oldie but goodie "turn and talk" strategy. I'm excited to continue to play around with these techniques, but I would love to hear more from you. What engagement moves have you been using lately? What seems to be working for you and your class?

Check back soon for part two of our series on engagement for more tips and strategies!

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In Place of Turn and Talk, Ways to Monitor for Engagement When Working With Students Virtually

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Get your parent's or teacher's permission, and their help

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With the pandemic not letting down in many places, schools are beginning to focus less on re-entry and more on starting the year with remote learning. Even in countries where COVID19 is under control, there is still a certain level of nervousness and anxiety that a second wave could perpetuate a shift to either a hybrid model or remote instruction. No matter the situation, lessons learned have to be acted upon in order to provide a valuable learning experience to all kids regardless of demographics. One of the most prominent obstacles encountered was getting and keeping kids engaged. A recent Chalkbeat article highlighted the results of some surveys that alluded to this issue:

And engagement with schoolwork was relatively low across the board, reflecting the challenges of keeping students engaged in a chaotic time and of teaching from a distance. Teachers in two separate surveys estimated that only about 60% of their students were regularly participating or engaging in distance learning. (Individual district reports of daily "attendance" varied widely, as districts defined the term so differently.) Two-thirds to three-quarters of teachers said their students were less engaged during remote instruction than before the pandemic, and that engagement declined even further over the course of the semester.

Engagement begins with a focus on sound instructional design that leads to pedagogical techniques that foster active learning. There are many successful remote teaching strategies that can be employed, which I have included in this post. A balance of digital and non-digital activities is preferred, but you might have to lean one way or another depending on the availability of technology and WIFI in your respective community. No matter the situation, the key to empowering learners is to create valuable and meaningful experiences that they want to engage in every day. Below are six concrete areas to consider when developing any type of remote learning activity for maximum student engagement.

Without relevance, learning many concepts doesn't make sense to students, which is supported by research. The why matters more than ever in the context of remote learning. What one must do is step into the shoes of a student. If he or she does not truly understand why they are learning what is being taught, the chances of engagement and improving outcomes diminish significantly. Each lesson should squarely address the why. When it is all said and done, if a lesson or project is relevant students will be able to tell you:

Social isolation is a real issue impacting many kids, thanks to quarantining and extended school closures. There is a dire need for students to interact with their peers, especially during synchronous lessons facilitated through live video tools. Discourse can easily be achieved through the purposeful use of technology. In this previous post, I outline important pedagogical aspects as well as tools that can be seamlessly integrated into remote lessons to foster conversation. If kids are just consuming content and completing activities in isolation, then chances are many won't be engaged.

Another way to counteract social isolation and potential SEL issues is through collaborative experiences. These leverage the power of discourse while empowering kids to work together to solve a problem or complete a performance task. Using the elements of well-structured cooperative learning (accountability, timeframe, equitable roles, equal opportunity to participate) activities can be designed as part of a remote blended learning experience. In the end, it is about creating the conditions for positive interdependence, group processing, and interpersonal skills. For specific online activities, click HERE and for tools visit this link.

Rigid schedules and expectations didn't work particularly well prior to COVID19. They sure don't facilitate an engaging learning experience for kids. Having kids meet at the same time for a synchronous Zoom session as they would for a traditional face-to-face class just doesn't make sense and is counterproductive, in my opinion. Any successful remote learning implementation ensures that flexibility is a core component in both attending lessons and completing work. Asynchronous workflows that are set up with some content can lead to higher engagement if there is some flexibility aligned to getting assignments done over a specified timeframe.

Many of the areas I have already discussed are integrated throughout a personalized experience. It represents a shift in focus from the "what" (content, curriculum, tests, programs, technology) to the "who" to create a more personal learning experience for all kids. At the forefront is developing and sustaining a culture that imparts purpose, meaning, relevance, ownership, and various paths that cater to all students' strengths and weaknesses.

High agency strategies such as voice, choice, path, pace, and place typically in the form of pedagogically-sound blended learning lead to high engagement levels. I encourage you to check out this post that provides a deep dive into effective personalized learning.

Most kids want to know how they are doing and what can be done to improve. If there are no mechanisms for timely, meaningful, and specific feedback, then the motivation to complete any type of remote learning activity wanes. Feedback justifies a grade, establishes criteria for improvement, provides motivation for the next assessment, reinforces good work, and serves as a catalyst for reflection. The assessment determines whether learning occurred, what learning occurred, and if the learning relates to stated targets, standards, and objectives. In reality, formative assessment is an advanced form of feedback. Consider developing digital feedback logs as an engagement strategy.

If students aren't engaged, then the chances are that they won't complete remote activities. The result will be widening learning and achievement gaps that will impact disadvantaged kids the hardest. A compelling reason to learn, coupled with meaningful experiences, is the best recipe for sustained engagement to avoid this potential pitfall while developing the motivation to learn.

Be sure to check out my entire #remotelearning series

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Use Flipgrid to connect with another classroom around the world.

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Flipgrid was created for a single class, ( 's University of Minnesota PHD students, to be exact), but it didn't take long for educators to begin using Flipgrid to connect with classrooms around the world.

A Kindergarten class in Iowa connected with Kindergarten students in Sudan.

Three Norwegian educators connected their students with classes in South Dakota.

A high school English teacher in New York connected his students with a middle school Science class in Ohio.

Educators have made thousands of connections, using Flipgrid to increase social learning, global empathy, and cultural understanding. They inspired us to create CoPilotsso you can collaboratively manage your Grids and Topics with a fellow educator.

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Flipgrid was created for a single class, ( 's University of Minnesota PHD students, to be exact), but it didn't take long for educators to begin using Flipgrid to connect with classrooms around the world. A Kindergarten class in Iowa connected with Kindergarten students in Sudan.

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I would use this at least 2 times during the year to see how children grow and change.

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We're back with a new reading challenge for our younger readers. The Read More! 2020 Reading Challenge for Kids challenges children to read 12 books throughout 2020.

The Read More! 2020 Reading Challenge for Kids categories are:

a book that has an animal as a main character

a book with a silly title

a favorite picture book

a book that is part of a series

a book with a single word title

a book about a past president

a book about a famous woman

a book set in space or about an alien

a book with an animal on the cover

a new book (published in 2019/2020)

a fantasy or fairy tale book

a book that was made into a movie or television show

View our reading challenge now!

For older readers, we offer our Read More! 2019 Reading Challenge perfect for getting your reading back on track!

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Read one picture book a day for the whole year. Books for K-8, activities, podcast, etc.

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#ClassroomBookaDay is about making time each day in your classroom to read a picture book.
What do you see as the benefit of focusing more on picture books?

I've seen these incredible displays of teachers' #ClassroomBookaDay reading where they post a cover of each book on grid on a bulletin board.
How do you display the #ClassroomBookADay in your school?
How do you see the display of the books as an important of aspect of #ClassroomBookADay? How do you make time to read one picture book every day? What is your routine like for reading the books with your students? What about folks who don't have their own classroom - librarians, literacy coaches, administrators? 180+ days is a lot to fill! How do you choose titles? What are some of your favorite books for the first week or so of school? Where can people go to get more information? Aside from picture books, what have you been reading lately that you've liked?

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Classroom Book-A-Day w/ Jillian Heise: Books Between, Episode 30

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ClassroomBookaDay is about making time each day in your classroom to read a picture book. What do you see as the benefit of focusing more on picture books? I've seen these incredible displays of teachers' #ClassroomBookaDay reading where they post a cover of each book on grid on a bulletin board.

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Tons of ideas on writing with K-8.

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A meeting place for a world of reflective writers.

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How to Create an eBook with Google Slides

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Google Slides Did you know that Google Slides can be used for much more than just presentations? Google Slides is one of the most flexible learning tools in the G Suite. In fact, I used

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I’m penning this as the #YouCanBeABCs with Sam. Literally stopped him from drinking a smoothie to film this. In addition to being the co-writer, I think Sam deserves credit for choreography. 🤣🤣...