Connecting with students online: strategies for remote teaching & learning

Holding true to priorities as we move online. Connection and relationships ; Emotional well-being ; Engagement ; Clear, strategic, and focused direct instruction ; Guided practice ; Access ; Assessment ; Balance

Partnering with adults at home. Strategies. Welcome caregivers to your online classroom ; Survey students and families to understand needs ; Share the weekly schedule ; Share notes on students' work and progress ; Record how-to videos for using technology ; Offer advice about setting up learning space(s) at home ; Encourage caregivers to develop a schedule and/or routines ; Help families know what to do when things get frustrating

Planning and revising curriculum units for online instruction. Strategies. Step 1: Identify goals and skill progressions ; Step 2: Find anchor texts ; Step 3: Try out what you'll ask students to do ; Step 4: Design assessments ; Step 5a: Map out daily reading lessons with goals and strategies ; Step 5b: Map our daily writing lessons with process and strategies ; Streamline and simplify:connect goals across reading and writing ; Plan for a monthly focus: genre, content, independent projects, or a mix ; Organize your curriculum and resources in a learning management system ; Approach your planning and teaching with flexibility and feedback

Managing your time across a day, across the week. Strategies. Understand the pros and cons of synchronous and asynchronous teaching ; Invite your students online with you for some time each day ; Plan and record short whole-class micro lessons ; Host "office hours" for student- and caregiver- initiated response time ; Make a schedule for conferences and small groups ; Preserve space for professional learning and collaboration ; Map out a weekly schedule and set boundaries

Supporting students' independent practice at home. Strategies. Ask students to read every day ; Give students access to paper books ; Adapt strategies for students who are reading e-books ; Adapt strategies for students who are listening to audiobooks and/or podcasts ; Create short text packets for shared reading experiences ; Rethink what it means to match readers with "just-right" texts ; Ask students to write every day ; Decide how your students will compose their writing ; Give students access to writing materials and tools ; Hold on (tightly) to writer's notebooks ; Set up a system for students to share some of their writing with you ; Ask students to do math every day ; Ask students to engage with content study every day ; Plan for students to create and move and play every day

Methods and structures for teaching online. Strategies. Develop community agreements and norms for participating online ; Set yourself and your students up for videoconferencing ; Convert your live mini lessons to recorded micro lessons ; Make your micro lessons more engaging ; Monitor and guide students' independent practice ; Read aloud (live!) to build community ; Record read-aloud to engage, support comprehension, and collect data ; Study a mentor text for writing craft ; Confer with students live ; Confer with students when your schedules don't align ; Set up and support reading and writing partnerships and clubs ; Engage reading partnerships and clubs with "written conversations" ; Engage writing partnerships and clubs with written feedback ; Engage partnerships and clubs with asynchronous video "conversation" ; Meet with a small group of students with the same goal (strategy lessons) ; Move your guided reading online ; Apply the tech tools and strategies you've learned to lead any type of group online.

Holding True to Priorities as We Move Online

Partnering with Adults at Home

Planning and Revising Curriculum Units for Online Instruction

Managing Your Time Across a Day, Across the Week

Setting Up Students' Independent Practice at Home

Methods and Structures for Teaching Online.