Google Meets
Welcome Screen - create a google slide welcoming your classes to the lesson - this can be presented with the getting started activity so learners can be busy whilst everyone joins.
Use the meet link on the stream for ease and to avoid students starting the meeting before you. Have a holding screen and/or Do Now tasks at the beginning of Meets |
Organisation & Setting TasksMake tasks really explicit - number them on your stream and make sure they match your slides/worksheets.
Flexible deadlines - Consider whether you need a task to be completed by 4pm or if you want it to take a bit longer. Consider teaching breadth rather than lots of new content - take some time to consolidate rather than ploughing on through content. Maybe teach some wider understanding to provide contextual understanding. Topics headings in each Classroom - use these to organise your classrooms so that it clear where students go for each type of work. How to do this is shown here |
OracyTake a register and ask students to unmic and answer just as you would in the classroom
Thinking Time - give students time to think before asking for answers in Q&A sessions. Countdowns - countdown from 5 before asking students to put answers in the chat box. Planned small group discussion prior to whole class (as no access to break out rooms) - bring students back into the meet for 10 mins in small groups to allow for discussion. Cold Call - prep them for this Weekly Oracy idea from the DET - link |
Getting Students EngagedDissolve the Screen - try to build on existing relationships to make it feel like you are still in a 'normal' classroom.
Use a 'live' quiz like Kahoot - use to get an idea of learning that has taken place or at the beginning as a retrieval technique. Google Quizzes at beginning/end of lesson - make them short, use TorF or MCQ. See RBi's 'how to' videos here and here. Create a Jamboard and ask students to contribute - could annotate a source, piece of text, image, add a post it note opinion to a statement - see TOs idea for use here or JFls here (please don't edit!) Other collaborative work e.g. exam questions using slides or jamboard Turn on cameras to show work - get students to physically show you their work rather than turn it in on GC. Might encourage more students to turn on thier camera. |
Feedback and MarkingFeedback If you use the private comment option in google docs to provide feedback, students get this instantly. You might want to consider this if marking outside of school hours. An alternative is to make comment on the actual doc - this stay invisible until you return to the student. You can opt to return all the documents in one go from the assignment screen and make a whole class comment when you return.
Mote Mote is a voice recorder available as a chrome extension which allows you to record your feedback rather than typing it. Get it here Try also the google voice typing option (found on the tools tab on google docs). Return button On the students work page when, there is an option to return - you can select students you want to send work back to and provide a overall generic response to all the ones you have selected. This might be a good option if it is a lesson with work you are not intending on marking. |
Adapting to NeedTopics - Create extension and support topics on each classroom stream so learners can see where to access support or stretch work.
Scaffolds - students seem to need a lot more support when working remotely so you will need to scaffold using sentence starters, gap fills, matching exercises etc for many students. Modelling - make it part of every lesson to model the type of response that you want from the students. Use a visualiser or writing tablet so students can see what you are doing. Provision Map - make sure you have checked provision map for ideas of how to adapt your learning for the specific students in your classes. |