Customizing and Adapting
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We have completed one week of remote learning. My student teacher and I shared in our Vlog Post about the lessons that we learned. We found that everything we learned fits under the umbrella of customizing and adapting our instruction.
This week we spent a lot of time working with different families to help them get logged-in to everything at home. We decided to keep things simple. We did not introduce new tech tools this week. Rather, we used the tech tools that the students were already familiar with using in the classroom. Also, we staggered different activities each day. We created video tutorials to walk families through different issues. Overall, we thought things went smoothly.
We remained flexible, and we made it our purpose to connect and listen to the feedback from students and families. We tried a shared Google Sheet to have the students describe their feelings, but it worked differently remotely. In the classroom, the students go the slide that matches their student number. However, remotely it didn't work out yet. So we transitioned over to a Google Survey. It was awesome!
The highlight of the week came from our collaborative planning time. If we saw individual feedback that we needed to address then we could reach out to those families individually. Next we analyzed the overall feedback of the class to gauge how everyone was feeling. When we used the feedback to customize our instruction then it felt like a sigh of relief. It seemed like everyone felt more comfortable and connected.
We spent a lot of time making daily videos, but when we tracked the analytics then we realized that the majority of the class was not using these materials. We took a poll in Schoology, and we realized the families were looking for live interactions. We connected with our students using a Google Meet, and it was a success.
Also, we have been interacting and watching the different FlipGrid posts of the students. We noticed that the kids in this class loved making blanket forts. We decided to create our own class blanket fort competition. The kids will design a blanket fort, and they will share it with the class using FlipGrid. At the beginning of the week, I didn't imagine us having a blanket fort competition, but it is important to tap into the interest of the students.
This week we focused on adapting and customizing online instruction based-on the feedback of the students and families.
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