Craft Category: Strategies

During timed breaks, provide students with suggestions for different activities they can engage in during the break.

Embedding short breaks for movement into daily lessons can help to boost focus, reduce stress, and encourage physical activity.

Accountable talk provides students with sentence stems they can use to jump into the conversation in meaningful ways.

Remote students can use hand signals to communicate their level of content mastery and to communicate their needs

One way to ensure all students both engage and offer up answers when participating in synchronous remote instruction is by offering “Wait Questions.”

Offering opportunities for choice can help to improve engagement. Create and use choice boards in your remote classroom by using Seesaw to help students gain autonomy and boost interest.

Students can earn virtual awards as a class to earn rewards based on positive behaviors.

Amtrak Learning Cars enable students to choose their remote learning environment by picking between engaging with their peers, getting additional teacher support, or working quietly by themselves.

To help ground students and remind them of being in the classroom, visually replicate your classroom and set it as your video background when teaching remotely or embed into your virtual lessons.

By color-coding and organizing activities, students and teachers are able to quickly access and understand the task at hand across remote and hybrid environments.