Category: Student engagement

Students attend virtual classes without engaging in the learning: 6 exercises to get to know your students better and get them engaged

“Whether it’s that they love to play baseball, have three brothers, or enjoy writing or photography, celebrating your students’ unique experiences and identities can bolster connections that keep them engaged and performing better in school. Students who have a deeper sense of self—and purpose—are also better able to define their goals and stay focused on pursuing them, concluded a 2014 study from David Yeager, Angela Duckworth, and colleagues.”

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Engaging students in a virtual environment: consider virtual literature circles to create a safe space for students

“We must also choose books to help our students through what may be the most difficult moments of their childhoods, but also to understand the fight that others face, and what their role is and can be. Let’s help them get there. Let’s keep rich literature alive in a big way during and after this pandemic.”

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So your students are showing up virtually but not engaging. Here are some helpful strategies to encourage turning cameras on

“f you want to incorporate social and emotional learning (SEL) strategies to prompt camera use among your students, start with the recognition that words matter: Our communication with our students needs to be rooted in community, not compliance.”

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Engaging our students online helps attendance so here are 5 ideas for using feedback well this year: It’s harder to read a class when students are learning at home, so teachers need to explicitly ask for feedback by Zachary Herrmann

It’s harder to read a class when students are learning at home, so teachers need to explicitly ask for feedback

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Teachers can build strong relationships with and between students to help them get through this very challenging time.

“educators need to be attuned to indicators that a student is struggling. They also need to embrace new strategies to support the social and emotional well-being of students during distance learning. “

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Attendance matters! Make every day count in distance learning or at school!

Many factors influence reading proficiency, and chronic absence is one. COVID-19 has changed the way we view attendance. School is now defined as wherever the student is, and learning happens in many places, including brick-and-mortar classrooms and home computers with online teachers.

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5 Research-Backed Tips to Improve Your Online Teaching Presence – Edutopia

“In all forms of distance teaching, the ability to humanize the relationship with distant learners is important,”

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Great short video on how much difference a smile and a minute of connection can make to a student’s attendance

“One smile, one minute can bring hope”

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Morning meetings are a good place to start, but what you really need is a toolkit of strategies to meet your students’ social and emotional needs all day long.

How to Maslow before Bloom all day long

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Conversation groups allow students to explore vulnerability about their experiences and build trust in one another.

“This school year, many educators face the challenge of building relationships with new students virtually. How can they foster a sense of community without the camaraderie and spontaneity of in-person, classroom interactions? One approach is to make more time for personally meaningful, nonacademic, youth-driven conversations. In my teaching practice, this has taken the form of This …

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