Many of your are finding yourself using Zoom, which is a great platform and something I used until very recently when my school finally decided to partner with Microsoft, so now we use Teams. Here are a few ways you can use Zoom or other platforms to differentiate:
- Create various "rooms" for your students to go into. You already have them grouped by ability, designation, or other levels within your classroom, so this is no different. You give each group a task for the time period and they work together on it, you bounce from room to room providing support.
- For students in Special Education or English Language programs - send them notes before the lecture or topic for the day (you probably do this in your classroom anyway), then they can follow along. Create the notes as "fill-in-the-blank" to help them pay attention.
- Challenge your upper-level students to do some internet research on the day's topic(s) and have them come back at a certain time to present the info to you.
- If you are posting videos of yourself teaching also include links to websites or other resources on the topic - this provides various methods of delivery for the material.
- If you are using Google Classroom or another platform that students are logged into frequently, create a Q&A section and have students post questions and answer each other.
- Encourage students to respond to asynchronous discussions in a method of their choosing: video, audio, typing, or other presentation format.
- Utilize your knowledge of ELL support for students - always post your content and language objectives to be clear about the expectations for you session that day.
I used THIS article by Theresa Melenas, Ed.D. as a reference for some of these ideas.
These are things you do in a classroom everyday - now take those concepts and make them virtual!
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