Excellence in Teaching Domains

 National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Objectives

1. Teaching standards

2. Grow students

3. Effective virtual instruction

Module overview

1. Identify needs

2. Obtain new learning

3. Develop understanding

4. Apply

5. Evaluate and Reflect

Identify the need

Success	Challenges
Open chat box Mic open Google responses Simpler presentations	Lessons that are shorter Students engagement  Meet social-emotional needs

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

1. Social-emotional check-ins

2. Students course experience

3. Students goal settings

4. Targeted help and tutoring

Integrating Literature through QSSSA

Integrating Literature 

Model:

Engaging Practices & Pedagogy

3 signatures practices for students; creating the conditions for Student Learning

1. Welcoming activities -  If you were creating a playlist to capture your life right now, what three songs would you include. Padlets

    

2.  Engaging Strategy in the virtual settings. Model: TOE Method: Thoughts - Questions - Epiphanies. 

3. Optimistic Closure 

BUILDING TEAMs

T Team Facilitator

E Engineer 

A Architect 

M Materials Manager 

THE STEAM CLASS BY PROCESS. 

1. Define the problem, money, time, size, environmental impact, material 

2. Brainstorm: gather all ideas, conduct research 

3. Plan: materials, ideas, drawing or modeling

4 Redesign solve issues, improve solutions

5. Build use materials, make sure you keep the criteria

6. Test test the design.  

7. Evaluating, using rubrics. categories. 

8. Share and Critique 

9. Reflection: participation, ideas consideration, innovations, what different next time.