1/ Seven lessons from seven months of #teaching #remotely in the post Covid-19 world.
Shorter sessions.
Rather than running a 90 minute #class break it down into 4 x 15 minute session.
Each session has a central point, a framework, an example and an application exercise.
2/ An exercise needs to be time bound and interactive. Group work would be great if you could pull it off.
For instance, in financial modeling, I share half completed worksheets that need to be completed in the next 15 minutes.
In pitching, I ask them to critique a pitch.
3/ As #teachers our objective is to #teach. Can't teach without getting your students to do hands on work.
Things work differently in remote setting. You can explain all you want but till your students do the thing you are teaching with their hands, your job is not done.
4/ As instructors we now need to spend more time designing, structuring assessments, engagement and activities for remote classes.
If we do it well, we do end up become better teachers. And our students are better off because of it.
5/ Which means less lecturing, less power points and the death of long monologues.
It is hard to drop old habits, but engagement, interaction and activity is the only way forward.
6/ I wasn't a fan of remote #teaching. But the last six months have helped me change my mind.
With the right structure, the right mindset, and the right teachers the experience can be far more richer for #students.
And far more draining for #teachers.
7/ Progress. The old model was broken. The new is not really better.
But it has the potential to finally bring individual attention down to student desktops.
Still needs a great deal of work from parents, students, teachers, schools and technology but there is hope.
8/ Attendance needs to be done informally through short quizlets, polls, snap votes or Kahoots.
Spread the snap votes out so that as teachers you know if the concepts you have explained have been absorbed.
9/ Rather than doing all the work yourself and presenting it, get groups to present their work and let the class critique and help improve it together.
The joy of sharing an incomplete image, sheet or pitch and often getting surprising yet delightful results back
10/ The kids want to learn. They really do. Once we get that as teachers, the ball is in our court.
Given the cards we have been dealt, it is now up to us to make the experience enriching and worthwhile for them.
11/ Bring your sense of wonder, excitement and curiosity to the classroom. Sprinkle hope and encouragement within your lectures. You would be surprised and delighted by what a simple word of praise can do to lift a student's spirit
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