My inital approach over the summer -before we found out from our district on how THEY expect to approach the newschool year was to prepare for the worst and hope for the better. So, I planned for remote/distance teaching AND face-to-face. My face-to-face platform would be to teach the students very similar to my remote/distance teaching plan, just in case we had to shut down. That way the students could easily switch to the remote/distance learning platform. I also had a plan of how I would enter my home -through the garage and into the laundry room to strip and then head straight to the shower.
Michelle Guice wow! That’s impressive that you had all the various options planned out. That’s awesome. I’m also currently in the process of making my plan for how I go in and out of the house and what I’m going wear.
I'm thankful that you decided to start this teaching vlog and I really appreciate hearing your thoughts on teaching during this bizarre time. I am with you: the uncertainty has been a huge challenge this summer. I live in Missoula, Montana, and our school district will be re-opening under a model similar to the one your district is implementing. The main difference is that we will have half of our students in the building at a time instead of a quarter (so 15 per classroom rather than 9). We are using a block schedule with blocks two and a half hours long. As a 7th grade English teacher, my first concerns are about teaching and managing safety practices in the classroom. Of course, I am also concerned about supporting students to master crucial skills in reading, writing, speaking & listening, and language; in addition, I feel nervous about the length of the block periods, especially considering that my students will have never experienced a block schedule before. Two and a half hours is a long time! I am definitely working on strategies for variety and transitions. I feel super fortunate to work with colleagues on my 7th grade team who are willing to brainstorm ideas and collaborate to develop plans for managing the challenges we foresee and who are flexible enough to work through scenarios that we don't foresee at this moment in time!
Wow! that is a long block! thank goodness you have colleagues to collaborate with. My main focus in the beginning is going to be to train the kids to use online tools so if/when we close again, they know how to use the technology. Good luck!
@@EZEdTech SO GOOD to hear that is your plan, as it is what I had in mind as well. I'm also a teacher in HS in New York -- Hudson Valley. Currently we're "planning" to "open" 100% remotely. We go to hybrid in late October. As I am new to a lot of this (and I'm no spring chicken!) It's good to know that I'm thinking along the same lines as younger, more tech savvy teachers! Thanks! Kathie
Great Vlog. I agree that the worst is not knowing the plan. The uncertainty is a terrible feeling, because you don't know what to expect and what and how to plan for "uncertainty." Thanks!
We are opening on September 8. 100% virtual. We are having Wednesday for PDs. I appreciate you tutorial very much. I still need to learn how to use the Google, run alive virtual class. You are ahead of most of us with all the technology knowledge you have. I hope the best for you.
Genoveva Koppenol thank you! I am lucky to have the tech knowledge that I have. That’s why I try to share it and help others where I can. You stay safe! We have our plan for now but I wonder how long until we go to 100% virtual as well.
Hi! I’m up here in Alberta, Canada! We are scheduled to return back to school in September. I teach at a middle school and apart from knowing we are headed back into the building with masks, social distancing and extra sanitation, admin is still trying to figure out teaching cohorts, class configuration, etc. There are so many unknowns. My strategy this summer is to “fill my tank,” so I can give the extra that this year is going to require!😊
Great Vlog, thanks for sharing. I'm in Alabama and my school starts back August 20th with 50% of students on a Monday-Thursday split and the other half on a Tuesday-Friday split (not students on Wednesday). We have about 40% of our student population that opted for full virtual. I teach third grade (self-contained) and I plan on recording my main lessons so students can view from home, similar to your streaming idea. Like you, I may change my mind once this thing gets rolling. I will admit, I am not happy about doing both inperson and virtual, but it is what it is. I'm looking forward to sharing this journey with you and the other subscribers. Together, we can help each other get through these uncertain times.
Mike Herring it is certainly less than ideal teaching in both formats. I don’t know how many in my district will opt for full virtual. You have a great attitude, though! I would love to build a community here where we can support each other through this. We will get through this together!
I love your attitude towards this. I am ready to go back. I’m with preschool students so the classroom would look different. Parents can choose online or face to face. Our school board meeting is tomorrow when it comes to the start of school. Teachers and parents are pushing for online only to start.... I love the idea of live stream so both face to face and online are learning. With young ones work online will REQUIRE parents to assist during instruction. The attention span of a preschool is 4 minutes. I look forward to following your blog. I wish you well
Thanks so much for sharing! Yes preschool is a whole different ballgame. My youngest was in K last year during the shutdown and she required A LOT of help. And by help I mean redirecting her back to her school work 😂 thanks so much for sharing. I’ll be curious to hear what your school board decides. For me, getting that decision was a huge relief!
Hi there! I work in Barcelona, we are supposed to begin in September, with small groups of kids on the 14th. I teach 11-12 year-old kids. We still don't know for sure how we are going to start, although everybody knows there are different plans for different situations. The problem is, as I see it, to put our ideas together and make the students feel they are really learning, something super well organized. And, of course, for us too. I don't know really how to do it. I keep searching for ideas throughout the web to get a bit of inspiration for my classes, especially the online ones. Everything is so uncertain!!! Good luck for us all!
Yes! Good luck to all of us! it is going to be a year of adaption and learning for teachers and students. Have you checked out my videos on interactive slides? That might be helpful. It is a great way to present the material in an organized, engaging presentation.
Hi neighbor, I’m in northern NJ. I teach K-2, special ed, and the current plan is to open for 1/2 day, 4 days a week. Wednesday will be remote. I’m also trying to figure out what that will look like because there are no shared materials and students will be using devices. I found your videos in the spring and have been using your tips. Thanks so much! I feel very techy :)
Janet Villalobos hey neighbor! So glad my videos have been helpful for you! Having special ed young kids is going to be a challenge, for sure. Hopefully the kids will adapt to this “new normal” quickly.
I'm so excited to watch your VLOG. You know I am a fan. I live in NY too, but I teach middle school. We will have two cohorts that each come to school twice a week and no in person school on Wednesdays. My biggest struggle will be having to completely change how I teach inside the actual classroom since we will no longer be able to do group work or any movement activities and that is bulk of my lessons. Thanks again for your informative videos. I have been sharing your channel with all of my teacher friends!
French with Madame G collaboration is a huge concern for me too. My lessons are heavily based on working together. How am I going to adapt that? Lots of things to process in the coming weeks! As always, thanks for your support. It is much appreciated! 😊
Hello French with Madame G. I liked your transparency about collaborative learning since this is considered "best practice" for teaching. What helped me is to adjust my mindset and of course approach to teaching. I would ask myself, "how will I teach the way I normally do but on a virtual platform?" This helped me get started.
@@literacyartbyiris7183 I agree! I have started converting my materials to a virtual platform and trying to figure out how to still be "me" as a teacher while adhering to the new rules.
@@EZEdTech I have been brainstorming on ways to still be "ME" while I teach and I have been converting many of my resources to a virtual platform. Your videos have been super helpful in getting me to do that! I used your tips to recreate and reinvent my materials. Please don't stop posting once school starts!
Great attitude! Hope everything works well! I live in a small town in Argentina where we are more than lucky to be enjoying the tranquility of a stage 5. But we cannot go back to schools yet. So I guess we will end the year working as we had been doing up to here. I will continue try to get the most of the situation and offer my groups new opportunities to learn in as many different ways as possible. Crisis are great opportunities to change. #Weareinthistogether
I'm from Mexico city!! And here kids are no returning to schools yet but we are going to start remotely next August 24th, by watching TV channels for all over our country!! Teachers only have to monitor kids by calling by phone, write them e-mails, whats app, or posting a poster outside the schools because there are in Mexico a lot of poor people that they don't have even a cellphone is too sad. Here in Mexico, there are two kinds of schools the public and the pay ones (particular), the public schools nowadays are full at all because the economic situation a lot of parents had to change their kids from the Particular school into the public school, so many teachers as me stayed without work, because the particular schools didn't have money to pay us our salary!! Nevertheless, I try to keep going giving consultancies to my ex-students and help other teachers learn about technology in their classrooms!!! Thank you so much I love your channel and sorry for the speech I just wrote!!!
Don't be sorry! Thanks for sharing! Wow! That is crazy! Teachers in Mexico have a lot of hurdles to overcome. That is so awesome that you are still doing service for former students and colleagues, helping them with technology.
Hi! I'm a teacher from Mendoza, Argentina. We are back from our winter break, and since it's winter the virus has gotten stronger somehow and the there has been a bigger breakout. So I don't think I'm going back to in-person classes at all. I think we are finishing the school year remotely. And we wouldn't have touch the school in the whole year, crazy!
We have gone paperless. We are doing everything online whether the learners are virtual or face2face. We are moving to all differianted instruction w gamification , playlists and choice boards. Trying to learn new LMS platform, nearpod, edpuzzle, etc.
Artistry of Loving by Lonna Bartley I love that you adding gamification! It’s a great way to increase student engagement. I’m also in the process of learning a lot of new tools. I’m definitely planning on using edpuzzle this year.
I am a middle school teacher in north county San Diego, CA and we will be teaching remotely for the 1st quarter (we begin August 25 and end the 1st quarter on 10/28). I am a Spanish teacher and I have been teaching for 27 years (22 years at the same school), but I have never been as anxious as I am this year. We all feel very unprepared, because our district announced it's plans last week and we only have 2 weeks to get ready. We are requiring 80 minutes per class (3 classes a day) and part of it has to be synchronous. I have no idea how I am going to teach Spanish 1 to a new group of kids online, while asking kids (and myself as a teacher) to be in front of a screen for so many hours a day. I have used a lot of your ideas (with Bitmoji scenes) to build "digital classrooms" and I hope to incorporate those on my Google Classroom platform. All I know is that this will be a very different year.Thank you for all your tutorials; I have learned a lot from you. :)
Hedieh NaraghiSmythe that’s so great to hear! Thanks so much for your support. That is a lot of virtual class time. Sometimes it seems like the people that make these rules have never taught. Hang in there! There are a lot of tools out there that will be helpful for you. Have you used flipgrid at all? That seems like it might be useful for foreign language.
In my district in Texas, we're having 80% of students in classrooms, all day, every day. For my class, that's about 24 kids and me in an 800-ish sq ft classroom.
I don’t know what part you are in ... I’m in east Texas near Nacogdoches. Our HS probably has about 700-750 kids. However, it’s close to what we are doing in our district. I don’t have quite as large classes as you do. I have several with 21. Only 10% have signed up for virtual and they are doing everything they can to get them there F2F. Teachers return tomorrow.
We are starting in 2 weeks. We are going back with half our class on Monday/wednesday and the other half Tuesday/Thursday. All students will be online Friday. So students will be face to face 2 days a week and online 3 days a week.
Roberts that’s how we are doing it for elementary. The school district my kids go to is doing it this way as well. It is going to be interesting to see how this year unfolds!
We start on the 24th. Masks required. I understand only 10% of our High School students have chosen home learning. My smallest class is 17. Several are 21. We will all be there at the same time. Desks probably less than 2 feet apart. 250+ students on hallways during passing periods. No desk shields. Just masks until abbott makes them not mandatory. So basically... we have done strictly what is required by our Texas Education Agency and not one oz more. We will be teaching virtually simultaneously with F2f instruction.
Jennifer Smith ugh! That’s a horrible situation. I’m so sorry to hear that! I wonder how long we will all be back f2f. I feel like there will be another shut down before too long. I will say though that the masks seem to be pretty effective. Where I live masks have been mandatory since April and our numbers have gone way down. Hang in there!
EZ EdTech! Thank you. I hope my anxiety about it all will turn out to be me being paranoid. Texas, in general, is the opposite of NY. Many believe it is a hoax and refuse to wear masks. I do know the positive side is that finally... all of us tech nerds are in heaven! Lol
My inital approach over the summer -before we found out from our district on how THEY expect to approach the newschool year was to prepare for the worst and hope for the better. So, I planned for remote/distance teaching AND face-to-face. My face-to-face platform would be to teach the students very similar to my remote/distance teaching plan, just in case we had to shut down. That way the students could easily switch to the remote/distance learning platform. I also had a plan of how I would enter my home -through the garage and into the laundry room to strip and then head straight to the shower.
Michelle Guice wow! That’s impressive that you had all the various options planned out. That’s awesome. I’m also currently in the process of making my plan for how I go in and out of the house and what I’m going wear.
I'm thankful that you decided to start this teaching vlog and I really appreciate hearing your thoughts on teaching during this bizarre time. I am with you: the uncertainty has been a huge challenge this summer. I live in Missoula, Montana, and our school district will be re-opening under a model similar to the one your district is implementing. The main difference is that we will have half of our students in the building at a time instead of a quarter (so 15 per classroom rather than 9). We are using a block schedule with blocks two and a half hours long. As a 7th grade English teacher, my first concerns are about teaching and managing safety practices in the classroom. Of course, I am also concerned about supporting students to master crucial skills in reading, writing, speaking & listening, and language; in addition, I feel nervous about the length of the block periods, especially considering that my students will have never experienced a block schedule before. Two and a half hours is a long time! I am definitely working on strategies for variety and transitions. I feel super fortunate to work with colleagues on my 7th grade team who are willing to brainstorm ideas and collaborate to develop plans for managing the challenges we foresee and who are flexible enough to work through scenarios that we don't foresee at this moment in time!
Wow! that is a long block! thank goodness you have colleagues to collaborate with. My main focus in the beginning is going to be to train the kids to use online tools so if/when we close again, they know how to use the technology. Good luck!
@@EZEdTech SO GOOD to hear that is your plan, as it is what I had in mind as well. I'm also a teacher in HS in New York -- Hudson Valley. Currently we're "planning" to "open" 100% remotely. We go to hybrid in late October. As I am new to a lot of this (and I'm no spring chicken!) It's good to know that I'm thinking along the same lines as younger, more tech savvy teachers! Thanks! Kathie
Great Vlog. I agree that the worst is not knowing the plan. The uncertainty is a terrible feeling, because you don't know what to expect and what and how to plan for "uncertainty." Thanks!
Michelle Guice thanks so much!
We are opening on September 8. 100% virtual. We are having Wednesday for PDs. I appreciate you tutorial very much. I still need to learn how to use the Google, run alive virtual class. You are ahead of most of us with all the technology knowledge you have. I hope the best for you.
Genoveva Koppenol thank you! I am lucky to have the tech knowledge that I have. That’s why I try to share it and help others where I can. You stay safe! We have our plan for now but I wonder how long until we go to 100% virtual as well.
Hi! I’m up here in Alberta, Canada! We are scheduled to return back to school in September. I teach at a middle school and apart from knowing we are headed back into the building with masks, social distancing and extra sanitation, admin is still trying to figure out teaching cohorts, class configuration, etc. There are so many unknowns. My strategy this summer is to “fill my tank,” so I can give the extra that this year is going to require!😊
Erica Easton that is a very smart strategy! It’s gonna be a long year whatever it holds so we’ve got to fill our tanks while we can!!!
Thank you very much for sharing! It's a chance for me to see what I can do to help my students here) All the best to you, Gin!
Thank you! All the best to you, too! Thanks for watching
Great Vlog, thanks for sharing. I'm in Alabama and my school starts back August 20th with 50% of students on a Monday-Thursday split and the other half on a Tuesday-Friday split (not students on Wednesday). We have about 40% of our student population that opted for full virtual. I teach third grade (self-contained) and I plan on recording my main lessons so students can view from home, similar to your streaming idea. Like you, I may change my mind once this thing gets rolling. I will admit, I am not happy about doing both inperson and virtual, but it is what it is. I'm looking forward to sharing this journey with you and the other subscribers. Together, we can help each other get through these uncertain times.
Mike Herring it is certainly less than ideal teaching in both formats. I don’t know how many in my district will opt for full virtual. You have a great attitude, though! I would love to build a community here where we can support each other through this. We will get through this together!
I appreciate you sharing this blog with us.
Genoveva Koppenol thank you! 😊
I love your attitude towards this. I am ready to go back. I’m with preschool students so the classroom would look different. Parents can choose online or face to face. Our school board meeting is tomorrow when it comes to the start of school. Teachers and parents are pushing for online only to start.... I love the idea of live stream so both face to face and online are learning. With young ones work online will REQUIRE parents to assist during instruction. The attention span of a preschool is 4 minutes. I look forward to following your blog. I wish you well
Thanks so much for sharing! Yes preschool is a whole different ballgame. My youngest was in K last year during the shutdown and she required A LOT of help. And by help I mean redirecting her back to her school work 😂 thanks so much for sharing. I’ll be curious to hear what your school board decides. For me, getting that decision was a huge relief!
Hi there! I work in Barcelona, we are supposed to begin in September, with small groups of kids on the 14th. I teach 11-12 year-old kids. We still don't know for sure how we are going to start, although everybody knows there are different plans for different situations. The problem is, as I see it, to put our ideas together and make the students feel they are really learning, something super well organized. And, of course, for us too. I don't know really how to do it. I keep searching for ideas throughout the web to get a bit of inspiration for my classes, especially the online ones. Everything is so uncertain!!! Good luck for us all!
Yes! Good luck to all of us! it is going to be a year of adaption and learning for teachers and students. Have you checked out my videos on interactive slides? That might be helpful. It is a great way to present the material in an organized, engaging presentation.
EZ EdTech! I’m a devote follower! I’ll do everything you do. Best of luck to us all. Thanks a lot!!!
Hi neighbor, I’m in northern NJ. I teach K-2, special ed, and the current plan is to open for 1/2 day, 4 days a week. Wednesday will be remote. I’m also trying to figure out what that will look like because there are no shared materials and students will be using devices. I found your videos in the spring and have been using your tips. Thanks so much! I feel very techy :)
Janet Villalobos hey neighbor! So glad my videos have been helpful for you! Having special ed young kids is going to be a challenge, for sure. Hopefully the kids will adapt to this “new normal” quickly.
I'm so excited to watch your VLOG. You know I am a fan. I live in NY too, but I teach middle school. We will have two cohorts that each come to school twice a week and no in person school on Wednesdays. My biggest struggle will be having to completely change how I teach inside the actual classroom since we will no longer be able to do group work or any movement activities and that is bulk of my lessons. Thanks again for your informative videos. I have been sharing your channel with all of my teacher friends!
French with Madame G collaboration is a huge concern for me too. My lessons are heavily based on working together. How am I going to adapt that? Lots of things to process in the coming weeks! As always, thanks for your support. It is much appreciated! 😊
Hello French with Madame G. I liked your transparency about collaborative learning since this is considered "best practice" for teaching. What helped me is to adjust my mindset and of course approach to teaching. I would ask myself, "how will I teach the way I normally do but on a virtual platform?" This helped me get started.
@@literacyartbyiris7183 I agree! I have started converting my materials to a virtual platform and trying to figure out how to still be "me" as a teacher while adhering to the new rules.
@@EZEdTech
I have been brainstorming on ways to still be "ME" while I teach and I have been converting many of my resources to a virtual platform. Your videos have been super helpful in getting me to do that! I used your tips to recreate and reinvent my materials. Please don't stop posting once school starts!
French with Madame G don’t worry! I’m not going to! I really want to help out other teachers. I’m not going to leave you hanging when school starts!
Great attitude! Hope everything works well! I live in a small town in Argentina where we are more than lucky to be enjoying the tranquility of a stage 5. But we cannot go back to schools yet. So I guess we will end the year working as we had been doing up to here. I will continue try to get the most of the situation and offer my groups new opportunities to learn in as many different ways as possible. Crisis are great opportunities to change. #Weareinthistogether
you have a great attitude as well! the best thing that has come out of this for me learning new things and finding new ways to engage my students.
I'm from Mexico city!! And here kids are no returning to schools yet but we are going to start remotely next August 24th, by watching TV channels for all over our country!! Teachers only have to monitor kids by calling by phone, write them e-mails, whats app, or posting a poster outside the schools because there are in Mexico a lot of poor people that they don't have even a cellphone is too sad. Here in Mexico, there are two kinds of schools the public and the pay ones (particular), the public schools nowadays are full at all because the economic situation a lot of parents had to change their kids from the Particular school into the public school, so many teachers as me stayed without work, because the particular schools didn't have money to pay us our salary!!
Nevertheless, I try to keep going giving consultancies to my ex-students and help other teachers learn about technology in their classrooms!!!
Thank you so much I love your channel and sorry for the speech I just wrote!!!
Don't be sorry! Thanks for sharing! Wow! That is crazy! Teachers in Mexico have a lot of hurdles to overcome. That is so awesome that you are still doing service for former students and colleagues, helping them with technology.
Thank you. Be safe
Miss Dee thanks. You too!
My school is on holiday currently and opening in September. Hope your safe!
Ideas of Technology same for us! Thanks for sharing 😊
What are you going to use to Live Stream your classes? I really like that idea.
UA-cam. My work channel is enabled for Live Streaming so I was thinking an unlisted UA-cam live stream would be the easiest way.
Hi! I'm a teacher from Mendoza, Argentina. We are back from our winter break, and since it's winter the virus has gotten stronger somehow and the there has been a bigger breakout. So I don't think I'm going back to in-person classes at all. I think we are finishing the school year remotely. And we wouldn't have touch the school in the whole year, crazy!
Micaela Monsalve that is crazy! Do you think it’s been effective teaching remotely? We will reopen but I’m not sure how long we’ll stay open.
We have gone paperless. We are doing everything online whether the learners are virtual or face2face. We are moving to all differianted instruction w gamification , playlists and choice boards. Trying to learn new LMS platform, nearpod, edpuzzle, etc.
Artistry of Loving by Lonna Bartley I love that you adding gamification! It’s a great way to increase student engagement. I’m also in the process of learning a lot of new tools. I’m definitely planning on using edpuzzle this year.
I am a middle school teacher in north county San Diego, CA and we will be teaching remotely for the 1st quarter (we begin August 25 and end the 1st quarter on 10/28). I am a Spanish teacher and I have been teaching for 27 years (22 years at the same school), but I have never been as anxious as I am this year. We all feel very unprepared, because our district announced it's plans last week and we only have 2 weeks to get ready. We are requiring 80 minutes per class (3 classes a day) and part of it has to be synchronous. I have no idea how I am going to teach Spanish 1 to a new group of kids online, while asking kids (and myself as a teacher) to be in front of a screen for so many hours a day. I have used a lot of your ideas (with Bitmoji scenes) to build "digital classrooms" and I hope to incorporate those on my Google Classroom platform. All I know is that this will be a very different year.Thank you for all your tutorials; I have learned a lot from you. :)
Hedieh NaraghiSmythe that’s so great to hear! Thanks so much for your support. That is a lot of virtual class time. Sometimes it seems like the people that make these rules have never taught. Hang in there! There are a lot of tools out there that will be helpful for you. Have you used flipgrid at all? That seems like it might be useful for foreign language.
In my district in Texas, we're having 80% of students in classrooms, all day, every day. For my class, that's about 24 kids and me in an 800-ish sq ft classroom.
Shottie78 yikes! That’s scary! How do your feel about that? Are they required to wear masks?
I don’t know what part you are in ... I’m in east Texas near Nacogdoches. Our HS probably has about 700-750 kids. However, it’s close to what we are doing in our district. I don’t have quite as large classes as you do. I have several with 21. Only 10% have signed up for virtual and they are doing everything they can to get them there F2F. Teachers return tomorrow.
We are starting in 2 weeks. We are going back with half our class on Monday/wednesday and the other half Tuesday/Thursday. All students will be online Friday. So students will be face to face 2 days a week and online 3 days a week.
Roberts that’s how we are doing it for elementary. The school district my kids go to is doing it this way as well. It is going to be interesting to see how this year unfolds!
We start on the 24th. Masks required. I understand only 10% of our High School students have chosen home learning. My smallest class is 17. Several are 21. We will all be there at the same time. Desks probably less than 2 feet apart. 250+ students on hallways during passing periods. No desk shields. Just masks until abbott makes them not mandatory. So basically... we have done strictly what is required by our Texas Education Agency and not one oz more. We will be teaching virtually simultaneously with F2f instruction.
Jennifer Smith ugh! That’s a horrible situation. I’m so sorry to hear that! I wonder how long we will all be back f2f. I feel like there will be another shut down before too long. I will say though that the masks seem to be pretty effective. Where I live masks have been mandatory since April and our numbers have gone way down. Hang in there!
EZ EdTech! Thank you. I hope my anxiety about it all will turn out to be me being paranoid. Texas, in general, is the opposite of NY. Many believe it is a hoax and refuse to wear masks. I do know the positive side is that finally... all of us tech nerds are in heaven! Lol
Jennifer Smith that is the silver lining 🤣