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- 1. Building a Sense of Belonging Amongst Virtual Learners
- 2. A sense of community is just as important as the content itself.
- 3. From the teacher’s perspective… • Classroom Management • Low Student Performance • Lack of Student Motivation and Engagement • Low Participation and Return Rate on Assignments • Negative Student Behaviors (not always bullying - sometime being silent killers)
- 4. From the student’s perspective… • Emotional Instability • Unproductive Citizenship • Negative Relationships with Diverse People • Fixed Mindsets • Low Social Skills • Poor Self-Advocacy
- 6. Our time together… • Strong Academic Relationships • Social-Emotional Learning • Citizenship • Cultural Responsiveness
- 8. Stop and Think! What is your students' academic relationships with their content and what academic relationships do you have with your students?
- 10. Academic Relationship With Content • PBL and Cross-curricular Lessons • Student Centered Lessons • Relevant and Rigorous Content
- 11. Academic Relationships with Students •RTI-A and RTI-B •Clear Expectations •Student Voice •Self-Advocacy •Time Management • Goal Setting •Learning Plans •Study Skills •Metacognitive Strategies •Differentiated Monitoring and Feedback
- 12. In a Synchronous Environment… Schools: • Individual Goal Setting & Virtual Check-ins • Academy Structures Math/Science: • Open-ended tasks with multiple strategies, representations, and solutions, • Explain reasoning, Justify assumptions and decisions ELA/History: • Analyzing Multiple sources, • Interacting with Text, • The Writing Process
- 13. In an Asynchronous Environment… Schools: • Self-Advocacy Forums Math/Science: • Math & Science Clubs ELA/History: • Researching • Journaling PE & Electives: • Health, Fitness, and Career Clubs
- 14. Good Citizenship
- 15. Good Citizenship • Honesty – tell the truth. • Integrity – be morally upright. • Responsibility – be accountable for yourself and your actions. • Respectfulness – treat others how you want to be treated. • Compassion – fellowship with your compatriots who are down on their luck • Kindness – be friendly. • Tolerance – be tolerant of other races and religions. • Courtesy – be considerate of others. • Self-Discipline – have self-control and cultivate the ability to follow through on what you say you’re going to do. • Moral Courage – stand up for what you consider to be wrong and defend those who cannot defend themselves. • Love of Justice – be fair and ask that others be so as well.
- 16. What I learned in Kindergarten? • Play fair. • Don’t hit people. • Put things back where you found them. • Clean up your own mess. • Don’t take things that aren’t yours. • Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. • Wash your hands before you eat. • Flush. • When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Robert Fulghum
- 17. Stop and Think: How can you provide opportunities for students to practice citizenship in your virtual learning community?
- 18. Building Citizenship with Students • Building on biographies of people that have shaped our world • Integrating a code of conduct that denounces cyber bullying and plagiarizing, and promotes healthy citizenship within the school
- 19. In a Synchronous Environment… School • Mock virtual presidential election Math/Science: • Develop a political campaign budget, • Calculate personal taxes, • Analyze the impact of CO2 on global warming or pollution on our environment ELA/History: • Current and historical perspectives on wearing masks in public. • Connect students personal history to our country’s history in an unbiased way, • Good citizenship fictional character analysis and historical figures PE & Electives: • Productive Citizenship day: • Share skills, talents and abilities that apply to employees, entrepreneurship , artists, public servants, caregivers, etc.
- 20. In an Asynchronous Environment… School: • Participate in a community-driven cleanup our neighborhood project. Create a virtual garden with real plants Math/Science: • Web-quest on campaign budgets or taxes. Design a garden or playground. ELA/History: • Virtual Field Tips to a Museum PE & Electives: • Productive Citizenship virtual bulletin boards
- 22. Stop and Think: How do you incorporate historical perspectives and culturally relevant connections in your virtual learning communities?
- 23. Culturally Responsive Virtual Communities • Use the world around students to launch into historical facts and concepts. • Incorporate their own interests as well as introduce them to new sports, vocational skills, and other technical subjects.
- 24. In a Synchronous Environment… Schools: • Virtual International Festivals • Build a diverse virtual library Math/Science: • Concrete Representation of Math • In-Home Labs for Science. ELA/History: • Historical and Current Local and National News Reports PE & Electives: • Bring your idea to school day and use those ideas to drive curriculum and content choices •
- 25. In an Asynchronous Environment… Schools: • “Get to Know Me” Group Boards Math/Science • “Look what I discovered” Video Blogs ELA/History: • Non-Fiction On-line Learning Portfolios PE & Electives: • Personal Health, Fitness, and Career Research Vlogs
- 26. A Sense of Belonging… Academic Relationships Good Citizenship Culturally Responsive Teaching