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Remote Learning Strategies

1. Lesson Segmenting 2. Be intentional in the lesson proper

  Segment lessons in a way that is accessible  Each lesson, no matter the length, should
to students, you’ll have a much higher chance of remain tightly focused on the learning
engaging your virtual classroom during objective itself.
synchronous learning.  A brief introduction reminding your student
 Often that will mean focusing on smaller pieces what happened last time before you launch
of content. Shorter pieces make larger concepts into the next piece of the puzzle is another
easier to teach, just make sure that each segment way to keep comprehension up despite som
is crucial to the lesson itself. of the handicaps of distance learning.
3. Make learning objectives accessible to
4. Adaptable curriculum and instruction
students

 One easy remote teaching strategy anyone can


use is accessibility: make sure every student  Show flexibility and humor - even when it’s
knows what they’re learning and that what difficult.
they’re learning is accessible to them  Modelling a growth mindset for students–
 It also helps to keep students on track. It also responding to uncertainty and difficulties wit
gives you a little bit of time to prepare to dive flexibility and humor – can help students
into the next lesson planned. develop ‘soft skills’ more important than the
content itself.
5. Ongoing Formative Assessment 6. Socratic Discussion or Fishbowl

Discussions

 Depending on the software you’re using,


you may have more or fewer options for  A form of cooperative argumentative
interactive lessons. dialogue between individuals, based on
 The more that your students are interacting asking and answering questions to stimulat
with the content, the better chances they’ll critical thinking and to draw out ideas and
retain information once the lesson is over. underlying presuppositions.

7. Gradual Release of Responsibility 8. Spider Wed Discussion

 The Gradual Release of Responsibility  Before the live class, students answered
Model is a teaching strategy characterized questions independently, and then
by a sequence of learning activities that shared their responses at the start of th
shift the responsibility from the teacher to meeting as a jumping-off point for a
the student. broader class discussion.
 The goal of this approach is autonomy and  It has been successful as a means to get
efficacy on the part of the student–ideally, kids to credit their peers with helping
the ability to transfer understanding on them come up with new ideas, which
their own. helps build rapport
 
Wilhelm Peralta
ProfEd Student

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