Social annotation is becoming increasingly popular as it is an effective tool that achieves great results. As we know, traditional classroom practices emphasized student's individual learning, but social annotation encourages our students’ participation in a more supportive community of learners.
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Personalized Learning is more than a buzz phrase in education. It’s a powerhouse type of instructional and learning model that designs and delivers with each student in your classroom mind.
Furthermore, to give personalized learning even more power per ounce, we, teachers, found after virtual learning, that personalized learning really does set students up for higher achievement in their education.
Read about different strategies and approaches to planning, designing, and creating personalized learning pathways along with how you can group students and then personalize even more inside of each personalized learning path.
We read and hear a lot about concerns that due to students learning from home, being away from school, teachers, friends, and extra-curricular activities, and not having what used to be the normal and familiar routine of going to school, there may be gaps in their learning and development.
If we want to give the same kind of support to all our students, how can we help them close their gaps over the summer break?
Before we begin with nine strategies to support our students over the summer break, let’s define what a “gap” could look like in a student’s 2020-2021 school year education.
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So, how do teachers get students to turn on their cameras? I have put together 30 ways teachers can encourage students to turn on their cameras during live virtual classes. Some of these ways are going to make students feel good, like that handshake at the door. Other ways will be linked to our content. And the ways that are left are going to create fun in the classroom, which is an important influencer to getting students to engage.
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Virtual learning has brought our students many unforeseen challenges since March 2020, and some of these challenges have either diminished its negative effect as teachers beat these challenges tech-on, while other challenges continue as we enter the last term of the next school year.
However, there are found advantages for students brought on by virtual learning that cannot be dismissed. And, if we as teachers use these advantages to increase student attendance, engagement, participation, and achievement, these virtual learning advantages students are experiencing become a Win-Win in our virtual classrooms.
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