imagine taking a class of 30 students to a museum or a park on a field trip and then coming
back with only 27 of those students that is not considered cool in fact we refer to that as a clm
a career limiting move because i bet your teacher handbook says don't lose students when you're on
a field trip but what about the classroom or when we're teaching remotely is it possible to
lose students in those situations and the answer is unfortunately yes so what can we do to ensure
that we have student engagement what can we do to make sure that students are being taken care
of emotionally well microsoft has a great new feature in microsoft teams called reflect it's a
quick little poll that we can take to find out how our students are doing and in this video i'm going
to show you how to use it reflect is an app so i'm going to go into the ellipse here and i'm going to
type in reflect and when i type in reflect it's going to allow me to install the application
if i haven't yet installed it you'll notice in my environment i have installed the reflect app
so i have the option of opening it here or i can call it directly from one of the channels
i'm going to close this dialog box and i'm going to go into a new channel social channel and i'm
going to start a new dialogue by going at reflect and this is going to allow me to go in and create
a reflection that reflection when i create new reflection can be either personal and social or
it can be something around the class materials that we're covering so if i go in here i could
ask questions like how did this week feel for you what are your friendships looking like are you
connecting to other students in the classroom how do you feel about the material we're covering what
did you learn so let's say for example i want to find out how are they feeling today so i'm going
to go in there now by privacy as an educator i can see the student names and reflections
and all of the other students can see what the class is feeling but not the specific people
that are feeling a certain way i can modify this so for example let's say i want to say i can see
the student names and everybody else won't see anything this is the most private type of setting
where i'm just collecting feedback as an educator i want to identify students at risk but i don't
want any classmates seeing that some of the other students aren't feeling really good a
lot of times i'll actually allow classmates to see that so that sometimes they know they're not in
you know they're in the same boat as other people it's they're not alone
and then i can determine how long i want that to be so let's say for example i've just given
out an assignment and i've just collected it back maybe a project i don't necessarily want
to give them eight hours to reflect on it i might want to say you know what let's just take a short
five minute survey here or let's give you the next couple hours to give me some feedback on it
it gives me a little bit of a preview here and now i can go in and send that reflection into the
channel and you'll see here that that now shows up for me and i can explore and see what the students
are doing and it shows up for students so that they can go in and they can complete it so when
they hit the explore button you'll see that as an instructor here i can say how are you feeling
today i haven't received any responses here i can see which students haven't responded and i
think it's important especially with the social personal questions sometimes no response means
that you need to reach out obviously if somebody's feeling sad or unhappy they need to reach out as
well let's log in as a student and take a look at what it looks like for them here i am logged in
as clark kent and you can see i've got this reflection that i've been asked to fill out
so i'm feeling pretty good i'm not totally happy but i'm feeling pretty good so i'm going to click
on this button here and when i click on that button it's going to open up the reflection
and notice that i'm also able to put in some words here so let's say i'm feeling pretty confident
today i can put that in there and now i can go in and i can say done and now that reflection
is there for my instructor let's go back and this is just a web interface so i'm just going to go in
and you can see here as the instructor if i go to explore it we're going to see that
clark has now responded so clark's responded i got 20 percent of my students are there
and you can see that clark is feeling confident uh in this case it's the first reflection he's
done but i will get a history of his reflections over a period of time as i ask him to do more so
i can see whether he's fading a little bit or whether he's getting more excited sort of how
he's feeling over a period of time what's really interesting is that reflect also integrates with
insights so i can see what's happening there let's have another student come in and do a
reflection on another computer and take a look at what that looks like i very quickly just had bruce
wayne come in and do a reflection and you can see now that his reflection is in there as well so i
can see some students that haven't responded the students that have responded and i'm starting to
get a feel for how my classes is feeling without them being uh compromised in terms of other people
knowing how they feel notice i'm seeing the student names if i was to go into the clark
reflection and if clark was to hit re explore you can see that clark can see here right you know
what's happening here he can put his reflection in there clark can also go in and view his journal
so he can see a history of reflections that are in there and he'll see all sorts of different uh dots
depending on how he's feeling we can see if he's getting more or less confident over the different
reflections that i'm doing so you can see this is very useful for him also you'll notice that
in this case here clark could go in if he goes in and tries to do the reflection again
right and feels confident let's make him uh happy we'll go in and happy we'll say done to that and
now if i close his web browser and i go in as a instructor you can see that he's upgraded his
contentment and he's made the change in there so it can be dynamic during the time the reflection
is open i really hope this video is useful maybe more than a lot of my other videos because this
one affects your students this one affects how are they doing and helps you go in and figure
out how to help them succeed in their learning and their emotional health so if you like this
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if you want more videos like this thank you so much for watching i'll see you in the next video