The document discusses how to approach teaching during a pandemic. It recommends keeping lessons simple and focused on essential concepts rather than technical tools. Instructors should keep workloads light and prioritize building connections with students and among peers. A new model of learning is needed where students feel known and respected by teachers and each other, and learning is viewed as a collaborative rather than solely individual effort.

1. Apollo-13ing Teaching
During a Pandemic
Cameron Paterson
@cpaterso

2. 1. Keep it simple. Pedagogy over tech tools.
2. Keep the workload light and stick to the essentials.
3. Focus on connections and relationships – that’s what matters.

4. To create a new story of
learning we must change
the role of the student
and the teacher

5. Students learn best when
they feel known, valued,
and respected by both the
adults in the school and
their peers

6. Learning and thinking
are as much a
collective enterprise as
they are an individual
endeavour

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