October 17, 2020 1 6 Ways Parents Can Support Their Children in Virtual Learning With COVID-19 continuing to lock down countries, parents all over the world have suddenly found themselves [...]
October 2, 2020 0 7 Ways to Increase Student Participation in the Virtual Classroom One of the difficulties teachers face when working with students virtually, is that many of them don’t [...]
September 26, 2020 1 6 Ways to Give Effective Virtual Feedback in Less Time This September — after being tossed into an emergency online teaching stint in March — [...]
August 29, 2020 1 Making Virtual Class Discussions Engaging Using the TQE Method, Breakout Rooms, and Self-Assessment Example of one group’s work in our virtual TQE discussion. A couple of years ago, I came across [...]
August 22, 2020 0 Virtual Professional Development Using the Jigsaw Technique Every year we kick off our two weeks of planning and professional development with a workshop to review our [...]
May 26, 2020 3 Lessons from Virtual Learning: Teaching Self-Advocacy Graphic adapted from: rule-the-school.com At TCFL, we teach certain self-advocacy skills to our students. [...]
May 23, 2020 2 Lessons from Virtual Learning: How to Improve Assessment I’m not very proud of what I’m going to write, since I can’t believe it took me so long to [...]
April 16, 2020 18 Virtual Learning – Students Tell Us What Works Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we made the move all of our classes online in mid-March — and we’ve [...]
April 7, 2020 0 How Administrators Can Go “Gradeless” and Assess Teachers Through Feedback I’m a big believer in modeling what we want to see teachers do in their classroom. For instance, we [...]
February 15, 2020 10 How to Set Up Inquiry-Based Professional Development for Teachers This year, at TCFL, the professional development (PD) themes we set for the school year were [...]