National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
Objectives
Teaching standards
Grow students
Effective virtual instruction
Module overview
Identify needs
Obtain new learning
Develop understanding
Apply
Evaluate and Reflect
Identify the need
Obtain new learning
-Instruction domain: Communicate learning objectives and sub objectives, reference to them teaching, self-assessing and in formative and summative checks.
- Motivate students: gamification, interaction.
- Feedback: high quality, video or screencastify, rubrics for them to know expectations, rubrics to work with partners.
Environment Domain
High expectations
Students engage and proper behavior
Students learning
Building relationships
Show respect
Looks: follow norms, procedure
Sounds: respect each other
Feels: safe for every student
Strategies:
Establish, communicate, and post norms
Model for expectations for success
Provide learning objectives
Accessible students work
Time management - agenda, refer to it - in break out rooms
Feedback in oral, written, padlet and screencastify, office hours, make up time.
Students pair/group work and learning reflections are shared
Engaging students
Strategies:
Surveys of comfort
Reminders of rules and expectations - use private chat if necessary
Provide order of the videos
Monitor completion of assignments
Rewards and also redirect by adjusting student privileges
Provide engage tools individual, groups, whole class; use breakout rooms
Begin the class with agenda, expectations, objectives, norms
Environment
Strategies:
Welcome by email and phone call. Expose procedures.
Virtual orientation about tools and procedures
Share positive messages
Weekly check-ins and office hours; reach out absent students. And monitors students work
Homepage (welcome video, contact info, calendar, syllabus)\
Clearly label quizzes, assignments and any other activity
Ensure material is accessible
Apply new tools - practice new tools with students - ensure all knows
Displays students work. And allow them to share work, new tools.
Establish a system to transition from one activity or settlement to another
Respectful culture
Strategies
Include diversity of cultures and perspectives
Ensure and model digital citizenship, legal, ethical, safe behavior, ask students to model it
FERPA
Use a secure tool for students communication data, meet with family,
Interactive lessons
Set expectations for forums and provide examples of participation
Provide time for students to interact and for social-emotional check-ins
Use private chat or email to redirect students
SEL
Social-emotional check-ins
Students course experience
Students goal settings
Targeted help and tutoring