EP196 Some parts of teaching are BETTER with remote learning. Here's how to leverage that.
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Crisis distance learning has improved teaching and learning in some surprising (and not-so-surprising ways) over the last couple of weeks.
There's no doubt that it's been stressful trying to make the transition so abruptly, but I thought it might be helpful to do an episode on the positives some folks are seeing, too.
Whether you secretly prefer remote teaching or if you just wish you were back in your classroom again, this episode will help you focus on the potential benefits of teaching from home.
You'll learn some emerging best practices and positive reports from teachers about their experiences with distance learning to help you make the best of this time.
You'll also hear a call-to-action: observe and document which practices are getting good results (or perhaps better results than face-to-face instruction) for your students.
You don't have to figure out now how to carry this over to next school year, but having a record of what you're seeing to prove the benefits of now vs the traditional ways of doing school may be helpful to you later in creating permanent change.
If that feels overwhelming, then just pick one thing. What's one thing you're doing differently right now that's working better for you and your students, which you might be able to use in future school years? Keep evidence of that. Experiment with it, a lot, to learn what works and what doesn't. See where your observations take you in your practice.
Listen in now for some inspiration and ideas to get you started!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 196 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.8 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:11.6 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week |
| 0:14.8 | ahead. Today I'm sharing some aspects of schooling that have actually gotten better |
| 0:20.2 | during emergency distance learning and some thoughts about |
| 0:23.7 | some emerging best practices that we might want to consider for next |
| 0:27.2 | school year. Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript or find our |
| 0:32.0 | truth for teachers podcast community on Facebook. |
| 0:36.2 | View Sonic has been dedicated to being part of the educational community for over 30 years |
| 0:40.9 | and they want to help the millions of teachers and students finding |
| 0:44.4 | themselves trying to learn from home. They're currently offering free access to |
| 0:48.4 | their My View Board digital whiteboarding software giving teachers all the |
| 0:52.4 | distance learning tools they need to |
| 0:54.0 | continue to conduct classes. And now My View Board includes new features designed |
| 0:58.7 | just for virtual classrooms. Check it out and get access today at my viewboard.com forward slash |
| 1:05.0 | distance hyphen learning. I also want to tell you about how to provide distance |
| 1:10.7 | learning and earn graduate level credits at the same time. distance learning |
| 1:13.0 | at the same time. |
| 1:14.0 | Take a look at Teachers Learning Center, |
| 1:17.0 | aka TLC. |
| 1:18.0 | Educators from all 50 states go to TLC |
| 1:21.0 | for their professional development and graduate credit needs. |
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