Virtual Classroom Culture
This daily lesson slide deck shows a virtual replica of a classroom to ensure consistency and build a strong classroom culture in a visual manner.
December 2, 2020
Craft Category: Artifacts
Visual Virtual Classroom Background
This slide deck shares various virtual classroom backgrounds used for an elementary, bilingual classroom. It also includes a “star student” slide that the teacher uses as a background once a week to announce and celebrate their classroom’s exemplary student.
December 2, 2020
Color-Coded Google Assignments
This screenshot shows how one teacher color-codes all of their assignments so that students can quickly scan and find assignments based on the days they were in person, in remote learning, and/or missed class entirely.
- Monday: Red
- Tuesday: Orange
- Wednesday: Green
- Thursday: Blue
- Friday: Purple
NOTE: To ensure accessibility for all students (including those that have difficulties perceiving color), it would be beneficial to assign shapes, alongside colors, to each day.
December 2, 2020
GoGuardian Weekly Checkpoint Document
This screenshot of a teacher’s view of GoGuardian shows how helpful color-coding different sections and tasks in a virtual notebook or checkpoint document can be to ensure all students are on task and at the right spot in one glance. (NOTE: This color-coding is for the teacher and not the students.)
December 2, 2020
Daily Agendas
These fifth-grade daily agendas are clear, have an image to catch students’ attention, and are very detailed so that students know exactly what they should be doing and when. This is especially important when working in the virtual space, or when having some students working asynchronously while others work synchronously.
December 2, 2020
How to Communicate the Plan
This video by Dallas ISD explains why it is so important to communicate a clear plan in simultaneous learning to ensure smooth routines and procedures.
December 2, 2020
Weekly Curriculum Plan
This weekly plan for high school students is detailed with hyperlinks and objectives for each day. Educators should be clear and consistent with the design, ensuring all students know what to expect for the day, helping all students stay on the same page, which is especially important when transitioning between in-person and remote learning within a hybrid model.
December 2, 2020
Daily Seesaw Roadmap
This example schedule, or daily roadmap, is a fun way for students to know what to do throughout the day while also having all of their links and resources organized in one place. This is especially important for younger students to help them navigate remote and hybrid learning.
December 2, 2020
Digital Notebook
This is an example of a digital notebook that a high school science teacher builds for their students every unit. Their students participate in a hybrid model in which they are both in-person and remote throughout the week. By having everything in one place, students are able to engage more easily when switching between learning experiences, catch up if they miss class, review content, and show their understanding in various ways. By creating a Google Doc, students are also able to quickly tag their teacher when they need additional support or help.
December 2, 2020
Weekly Checkpoint Document
This document is given to students weekly to ensure they know their expectations for the week, where to go for content support, and what content they will be covering throughout the week. Included throughout the document are definitions, graphics, checks for understanding, and color-coded stop-points to enable the teacher to check that everyone is at the same spot and on-task quickly via GoGuardian.
December 2, 2020