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Distance Learning: Supporting Math Students
Distance Learning has provided me with so many new challenges that I feel like everyday is a new adventure. I am in my seventh year of teaching, sixth year with the same co-teachers, and I really was beginning to feel like I knew what I was doing, and then BAM! Coronavirus… Here are some tips as to how I support my inclusion students in math during this period of hybrid learning. Reference Sheets I use reference sheets in math all the time. But I feel like they are a great tool to keep posted on Google Classroom, or other online platform for the students to keep referring to. Reference sheets…
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Teaching with Google Forms
Transitioning to teaching from home was a tough change for all of us. Some teachers were probably more equipped than others, teachers who already use a lot of technology in their lessons. But then there are the rest of us who have to figure everything out on the fly! Personally, I have spend a lot of the summer learning how to do this better so that if we do have to go online again, I will be prepared! Here are some ways you can use Google Forms in your classroom. Surveys Google Forms is a great way of providing your students in school, or at home, with a questionnaire. Are…
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Tips for Distance Learning
There are so many unknowns leading into the fall. Personally I live in Massachusetts, our COVID cases are going down and things are reopening without a huge jump in numbers. Also, we go back to school later than a lot of the country, allowing our officials more time to figure this out. But we still don’t know for sure if we are going to go back to school, in person, online, or a combination of the two. The thought of going back to school with distance learning is scary, but so isn’t the thought of going back in person. Because of this, I also have to mentally prepare for both…
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Tips for Google Classroom
So most of us have had to move our teaching online. Unfortunately, there is also no sign as to how long this is going to last. I am using Google Classroom for the first time and trying to figure it out as I go. To try and help you out, I compiled a list of tips for using Google Classroom! For context, I teach eighth-grade inclusion. I co-teach with a math teacher and an ELA teacher and together we are running classes. Create a classroom for each section Maintaining multiple Google Classrooms can seem overwhelming. Especially when this is something that is new to you. When I first started creating…
