Blog of the week
‘The Hidden Lives of Remote Learners’ by Roger Higgins
In this blog Roger explores strategies teachers can use to develop formative assessment within the online classroom.
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‘Print to screen: How we can support students with online reading’ by Fran Haynes
Students are having to do a lot of reading online at the moment. This blog explores how we can best support them.
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‘Pedagogy Trumps Format’ by Shaun Allison
Advice on how we need to be thinking really carefully about our explanations when it comes to remote teaching.
Other Useful Links
- If you missed Fran’s twilight on explicit vocabulary instruction, you can watch it here.
- Chris Runeckles has produced this short video explaining how we can be supporting self-regulation during remote teaching
- The Research team at OFSTED have produced a useful review of what’s working well in remote education?
- This is really useful blog from Mark Enser looking at ‘Best bets in remote learning’
- Great blog from Alex Quigley – ‘Five things I wish I’d known about literacy’
- Free CPD – lots of excellent video presentations from researchED Home.
- Ben Gordon has made a useful Loom video explaining how the https://whiteboard.fi/ free app can work with live teaching and whole class feedback
- Another Loom on “How I start my Google Classroom lessons” by Katy Fairhurst
- In the TES this week – ‘Why research on remote learning offers hope’.
- Here’s a video from Kate Jones outlining 5 online tools to support remote teaching and learning.
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