When I created my original unit plan for this final project in November, little did I realize how much my unit and the world would change between then and now. I was excited to get back into the classroom and to work with one of my favorite colleague and friend, Alexa Stamatayades in her classroom. …
Covid-19 and the New “Normal” Here in Shanghai, schools are opening back up. It’s a slow process and at our school, with only a few grades at a time. In another week, we will have grades 4-12 on campus. So what’s different? There is definitely a new normal at school and it starts with temperature…
I’m going to start off this post with a mini sidenote: there has been a lot of discussion about caring for mental and emotional health during Covid-19. With that in mind, I’m going to try and remember to be kind to myself and let some things go. Even though I didn’t expand or contribute as…
From the Beginning… For many of us that have been thrust into virtual learning, we have had little, if any experience with online teaching and even less preparation. Due to unfortunate timing, our campus only gave us one day to “prepare”. I write that in quotations as preparation was really just giving us time to…
One School’s Journey toward Online Learning Amid a Pandemic Scare I started this blog post a few weeks ago… before virtual learning became a phrase that has dominated my personal and professional conversations. Here is a look at one school’s journey towards virtual learning amid a pandemic scare. What started as an adventurous week-long trip to India for…
Getting started on this project was probably the roughest part of this final but once I started; I really had to reign myself in because I wanted to do so much… maybe even too much, but I was so excited to put everything that I’ve been learning into action! After getting over the initial hump…
This week we look at different ways deep learning could look like and how they could be implemented. Using augmented reality, project-based learning, design thinking, game design, and challenge-based learning are all effective methods for deeper learning. A lot of the methods and articles were geared with older children but I think they can be…
For the last year, COETAIL has been an eye-opening experience for me. Even though I gained pedagogical knowledge when I studied for my Masters in childhood education and gained content knowledge from my experience teaching, the technical knowledge I gained from personal use was helpful but lacking. I didn’t have the synthesized knowledge of all…
This week we continued our reading into the new pedagogy in Rich Seam. This chapter, in particular, focused on the 6 C’s; which is the 4 C’s of the 21st Century Skills with the addition of character education and citizenship. The 6 C’s are: Character Education Citizenship Communication Critical Thinking Collaboration Creativity Originally I thought…
This week, we read about emerging theories of learning and new pedagogy. I’m not gonna lie, I had a really hard time getting through the reading this week. For some reason or another, I just couldn’t get through it and I was having such a hard time with the concepts and ideas because it all…