hey everybody it's sam carrick from the
new ed tech classroom if you're new to
my channel i make videos that bring
together
high impact instructional strategies and
powerful technology tools to transform
your teaching
in this video i'll be giving you five
tips for how to address the challenge of
concurrent hybrid teaching
where you teach in-person students and
virtual learners
at the same exact time
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first of all i just want to acknowledge
the challenges of concurrent hybrid
teaching
it's an unconventional teaching method
that requires
unconventional instructional strategies
so let me give you five tips that will
hopefully help you out
here's my first tip rather than
attempting to bring your physical
classroom
to your virtual learners move your
entire class
online although clearly well-intentioned
trying to deliver the physical classroom
to students via
live streaming or mounting multiple
cameras around the room so they can see
you lecture
and teach at the whiteboard is always
going to pale in comparison to the real
thing
it's sort of like virtual field trips
they aren't bad but
wouldn't you always rather be on an
actual field trip
focusing on bringing the entire class
online will also help you shift away
from
emphasizing student observation
to emphasizing student participation
live streaming a classroom puts a
priority on students being able to see
what's happening in class
but doesn't inherently encourage them to
engage with the learning
activities in that class bringing your
entire class online
will also mean focusing on optimizing
your digital classroom space
rather than focusing on optimizing your
physical classroom space
for example focus time and energy on
setting up a well-organized digital hub
where students and families can find all
the information they need
through your learning management system
better yet get your entire school to
come together and decide on a uniform
system for organizing
everyone's learning management system to
create a more predictable experience for
students and families
so instead of bringing the physical
classroom to your remote learners
level the playing field leverage
technology to your advantage
and move your entire class online my
second tip is to keep
using all the asynchronous teaching
techniques you've learned
remote teaching forced millions of
teachers to build skills in how to
provide instruction to students
even if they aren't in front of you
learning all at once
all at the same time teachers learn how
to create asynchronous video tutorials
with screencastify
loom or screencast-o-matic teachers have
learned how to assign student-paced
lessons in pear deck and earpod
and how to design hyperdocs and choice
boards to create rigorous lesson
sequences
that students can complete entirely on
their own if you have all students
moving through a lesson
in sequential order at the same pace any
number of disruptions can derail your
lesson
if a virtual student logs in late and
misses your direct instruction
it's going to be difficult for them to
jump into the middle of a lesson
if a couple of virtual students are
having difficulty with logging into
class
you'll be faced with a choice to stop
and troubleshoot while everyone else
waits
or move on without them and risk leaving
them behind
a hybrid classroom calls for hybrid
instruction
trying to run a hybrid class as an
entirely synchronous class
is extremely difficult to pull off
although you'll still
likely need to do some synchronous
instruction you should also continue to
provide
a large majority of instruction
asynchronously
that brings me to my third tip which is
to set up your hybrid classroom in
stations stations are inherently
asynchronous because you can't be at
every station at once
having the large majority of your
students working on independent
self-paced activities will open up your
time
and space to work with students in
smaller groups that's going to reduce
the impact of the unique challenges of
teaching in person
and virtual learners at the same time
although the learning that takes place
in stations
needs to be connected the key idea is
that the order through which students
move through stations doesn't matter
breaking your lessons into
non-sequential pieces is called
horizontal planning
and if you want to learn all about how
it works i suggest you check out one of
catelyn tucker's books on blended
learning
when you use stations i'd still
recommend starting class
all together to calibrate on what you're
learning for example if you are teaching
a lesson about fractions
you might start with a whole group
activity where students solve fraction
problems in padlet
then students would move into their
stations
in one station students might be working
on a personalized learning platform
like ixl or st math in another they
could be learning about fractions
through a self-paced
nearpod lesson in another playing a math
game like prodigy
and then in the final station they could
be getting direct instruction from you
on a skill i say move and scare quotes
because
students don't have to physically move
in order for you to implement stations
if students can't be in small groups
because of social distancing
you can split up the room into quadrants
number each part of the room
and have students rotate to the next
activity
after a given period of time once
students move through all the stations
over the course of a day or maybe even a
week
you could have them start to work on an
independent project
where they're applying learning by doing
something like creating a digital book
by the way if you like the tips i'm
sharing in this video be sure to hit the
like button
and be sure to let me know in the
comments below how you're currently
addressing the challenge of concurrent
hybrid teaching
my fourth tip is to leverage the power
of digital workspace programs in your
hybrid classroom digital workspace
programs allow you to teach via a
multimedia enhanced digital whiteboard
and allow students to work in their own
digital workspace
and most importantly they allow you to
see what all students are working on in
real time
let you jump into a student's workspace
to give them feedback
and allow for peer collaboration in the
workspace
one of the best digital workspace
programs is classkick
similar to a program like nearpod
classkick allows you to build
dynamic interactive lessons for your
students as well as see their responses
in real time
with classkick however you're able to
see all students working
on their assignments in a single grid
view
and in the actual workspace students can
choose from a wide variety of ways to
interact with the work
you've assigned for example they can
choose to draw
record audio type drag and drop take
pictures
etc it's not just students who can use
all these tools
as the teacher you can also choose from
any of the response tools
as a way to give students feedback and
there's also a comment bank with
pre-created comments
and customizable ones so you can start
automating the process of giving
immediate feedback
without losing that feeling of
personalization if a student needs help
while they are working
they can raise a digital hand to get
assistance
and help isn't limited to conversations
between the student and teacher
if you choose to enable the function
students can respond to a request for
help
as well you might also want to check out
programs like formative
seesaw whiteboard phi or whiteboard chat
which will also function like a digital
workspace
my fifth tip is to think ahead if you
choose to spend
money on your hybrid classroom to be
clear i'm not saying that any teacher
out there should spend personal money on
their own classroom
but i know a ton of you do anyway so if
you or your school are thinking of
investing in upgrades or adjustments to
make your classroom more hybrid learning
friendly
use that money to buy access to high
quality instructional technology
programs
instead of spending it on equipment the
only exception is that if students don't
have one-to-one computers
you should spend money on getting them
all devices first
avoid spending money on camera equipment
lapel mics
or any other piece of equipment that you
wouldn't use
in any other situation than concurrent
hybrid teaching
those types of investments won't do much
to facilitate students learning
and are focused on student observation
rather than student participation
although there are lots of great 100
free programs such as whiteboard chat
canva for education flipgrid google
jamboard
adobe spark post and loom for educators
many other powerful programs such as
nearpod paradec
actively learn padlet newsella classkick
gimkit and breakout edu cost money to
access the premium versions
and i think that's okay they're making a
high quality product and
need to make a living using any of those
programs will
immediately increase active
participation in class and are all tools
you can and should continue to use
regardless of your exact teaching
situation another option would be to
invest in an online course about
teaching with technology
or in pd on hybrid teaching techniques
you likely aren't going to be teaching
in a concurrent hybrid model forever
so if you're going to make a financial
investment make sure you're investing
in becoming a more adept user of
instructional technology
and build skills or get access to
programs that will benefit
you and your students in the long run if
you want more tips and tricks about
implementing hybrid or blended learning
be sure to check out that playlist above
and if you want to learn all about how
to build a technology integrated
classroom
click on the link in the video
description to get the latest enrollment
updates for my online course the 21st
century classroom
thanks so much for watching and i'll see
you in the next video