Penny Christensen
From March 2020+ all K-12 teachers have learned many lessons.
Which of these is your favorite?
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The introduction is the start of your Social Presence in your online classroom. If you are a novice online educator you may be especially concerned. Allow me to share two methods for K-12 educators to enhance your social presence in your online classroom.
As the online opportunities increase, do you know how to create Teacher Presence in the online classroom to promote student engagement?
How can your lesson plan make it clearer to your observing administrator the totality of what is going on in your classroom?
We can extend all the grace we like in our virtual classrooms, but the disconnect between our deepest selves and what we do daily is broken for many of us. It isn’t about how kindly we treat each other as much as the hole left from the lesson not given, the improvement not made, the missing connection over joyful work in our classrooms. Many teachers are mourning for more than what is not, but also who they are not able to be right now.
Don't worry about Pandemic Grading; instead worry about intentionally crafting unconditional positive regard for each other.
Teachers who are not fluent in Online or Blended Learning environments need a variety of sample workflows to start to picture their students, with their content, navigating through the online versus face-to-face components of a class they teach.
Educator since 1998. eLearning Specialist since 2009.
