Online Teaching
16 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Online Teachers in Your Life
A list of 16 gift ideas to make the online teaching experience easier, better, and, yes, more fun!
Sarah Pazur
December 18, 2020
A list of 16 gift ideas to make the online teaching experience easier, better, and, yes, more fun!
Should we go fully digital, use paper copies, or use a hybrid model? How will we assess the technology needs of our students? Should we arrange for meal pick up, delivery, or some combination? How will we manage and monitor student learning? How will we continue to meet the social-emotional needs of our students? These are just some of the questions that school leaders faced as they developed their plans for continued learning after school doors were shuttered for the year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
True collegial groups among teachers, in any context, still remain the exception and not the norm in many schools — especially for online teachers.
In our last post on instructional leadership, we touched on the issue of professional development (PD) and the necessity of providing online teachers with ongoing training, support, and PD. This post will expand on the critical importance of PD for new online teachers and ongoing PD for all online teachers.
What makes for quality online teaching? In this blog post, we overview the latest revision to the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching, which offer a consensus from national online learning experts on what constitutes effective online teaching.
