This week's spotlight focuses on managing cohort C students while teaching during the current COVID pandemic. We spoke with 4th grade Wesley School teacher Lorrie Tine to find out what has been working for her. As students prepared to return to school March 15th, the question I had was - how am I going to manage my Cohort C students? I did not want to decrease their instructional time, so I came up with some ideas. Every day, during lessons, I circulate around the room with a portable white board and teach lessons. I use a personal microphone so all students can hear me clearly. Two students will sit near my document camera so they can interact with my cohort C students. They will write problems down on their white board and hold them up to the document camera, so my Cohort C students can make sure they have the correct information. After the lesson students work with partners to complete tasks. The same two students continue to work with my Cohort C students. We gather back whole class to go over answers and compare strategies. During independent practice I leave the zoom on in case Cohort C students have questions. They also have a variety of task cards at home. They go through their deck and pick some to work on with their in school peers. The in school students have the answer keys and can help Cohort C students correct their work. Overall this has worked very well. It gives the in person students more responsibility and the Cohort C students are engaged most of the day. If anyone wants to collaborate or share how they have been managing cohort C, please contact me!
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his week's newsletter spotlight brings us Katherine Vandrilla who teaches Chemistry at Middletown High! We asked Katherine to share her words of wisdom or tips for colleagues on how to be successful in this hybrid environment and/or integrating technology with students. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Give yourself permission to try something that might not work. Start small when learning a new platform or creating a lesson. Everything won't work perfectly the first time you try it. Give yourself the same room to grow that you give your students. If I'm really uncertain how the tech will work, I'm also honest with my students that it's new to me and I'm going to make mistakes (they like to see that we're human). I also can't emphasize enough to do a trial run when you can. Like if you're new to Pear Deck, running the presentation and joining as a student allows you to see how it will look on their end. |
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