For Those Times When You Need To Get Your Classroom Online
It takes innovative thinking for a school and its teachers to shift to online course work, but there are good models for it and many schools are prepared.
Flipped learning, for example, gets more attention when schools move online, especially during periods where students may have to learn at home for a lengthy period, including during the outbreak of COVID-19.
Jon Bergmann, considered to be one of the founders of the flipped learning movement who wrote a well-known book about it in 2012, says he has used the technique in his classroom during school closing. He says he provided the individual help it requires through a virtual room, letting students watch his lectures at their own pace then work on concepts with his direction.
His Flipped Learning Institute and collaborators have developed a rapid transition to online learning (RTOL) guide to transition to flipped learning quickly. RTOL is a 12-step global roadmap developed for school districts, schools, and educators needing a “quick start resource”, he says.
For other online instruction, International Educator has this list of resources and Public Radio station KQED has a number of links to valuable sources of information. There is also material from The Online Learning Consortium, the University Professional and Continuing Education Association, and The United States Distance Learning Association.
To transition to online learning, some experts have suggested these steps:
Written by Jim Paterson, Education World Contributing Writer
Jim Paterson is a writer, contributing to a variety of national publications, most recently specializing in education. During a break from writing for a period, he was the head of a school counseling department. (www.otherperplexity.com)
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