Classroom Management
The LTC has compiled a great list of advice on topics such as:
- Tracking and learning with masks
- Social distancing and interacting with your students
- Small group work
- Knowing whether your students are hearing and understanding
- Absences
- Structuring face-to-face and online time in hybrid classes
It’s well worth the read, and partners with the information in the rest of this module, which covers ways to use that advice in our mixed tech and face-to-face world.
To their list, we'd add the following:
- Repeat questions for the recording. Your wireless mic, or the webcam mic, don’t do a good job of registering audio from the rest of the room, but they will pick up your voice.
- If you're doing small group work, and have students who are remote, put them all together in one of the groups (or multiple breakout rooms, if there are a lot of them). Stop the recording while they are in their breakouts.
- Have a way for remote students to ask questions. If you have remote students, it's easy to forget to check in with them and see if they have questions. Try appointing a student to monitor the Zoom and see if remote students have questions.