USDLA K-12 Virtual Student Engagement Certification
Engaging Students Online for Mastery-Based Learning
a six week USDLA K-12 Distance Learning Teacher Webinar/Workshop Series
Join us for a six week workshop series in online learning to ensure student success now and in the future. We’ll explore pedagogical practices that ensure student success in live and asynchronous settings. Our format will include mini-lessons on platforms like Padlet, Loom, Pear Deck, Nearpod, Flipgrid, Google Classroom, and more, with time to practice incorporating these new learning experiences and platforms into our lessons. The goal here is student-centered learning. These workshops will model how to create learning experiences that build student choice, agency, collaboration, and learning accountability for you and your students.
Hands-on topics include:
- Engaging (and even fun) Online Learning
- Organization of Blended Learning Classes & Assignments
- Engagement Verification during Live & Asynchronous Learning
- Groupwork: Peer Interaction, Collaboration & Critique
- Building Student Self-Agency through Voice, Choice, & Self-Assessment
- Formative, Self- and Peer-Assessment & Iteration Toward Mastery
- Real World Learning & Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Creating Artifacts of Learning & Student Portfolios
- Family & Community Engagement
- 21st Century Skills: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Collaborative Creativity & Communication
- Curriculum Design & Integration: Building online learning tools into your lessons
Time/Dates
- 11:00am - 12:30pm EST Saturdays
- Jan 30
- Feb 6, 13, 20, 27
- March 6
Certification & Badging
- USDLA K-12 Virtual Student Engagement Certification
- Badges earned on STEMCoLab
Introductory Pricing!
- Full Certification Series (all 6 webinars) for non-USDLA members - Now $300.00 includes USDLA Membership
- Full Certification Series (all 6 webinars) for USDLA members (full or chapter member) - Now $200.00
Join a FREE remote learning webinar in Peer to Peer Engagement in Remote Learning with Padlet & Flipgrid to get a taste of the six week workshops!
Engagement & Social Emotional Learning
Week 1
Why we are learning is as important as what we are learning. Let’s focus on engaging our students through fun, hands-on learning experiences that give them increasing internal motivation and locus of control. In this workshop, we’re moving from teacher-directed practices to student voice, choice and agency. We’re focusing on engagement with an emphasis on social emotional learning, fostering the development of emotional intelligence, emotional awareness, security and growth.
Hands-on topics include:
- Incorporating self expression, student voice, peer interaction, and multiple modes of sharing
- Using formative assessment questions, polls, real-time inputs and feedback, role assignments, game-based learning accomplishments for ideation, problem-solving, and innovation.
- Reflections on learning through journaling, collaging, mind-mapping
- 21st Century Skills in critical thinking, communication, creative collaboration, communication
- Chunking: Structuring learning experiences into small bites for ease of asynchronous learning
Class Organization & Assessment for Student Agency
Week 2
We’re starting our workshop series with online class organization that foster student agency, autonomy, and accountability. We’ll learn techniques for creating more transparency and access to class scheduling, assignments, responsibilities and deadlines. We’ll ask a key question: Who is practicing decision-making in our class? Moving from teacher control to student executive functioning, from teacher-centered to student-centered learning.
Hands-on topics include:
- Organizing attendance, assignments, grading and homework within Google Classroom
- Student time management and scheduling
- Transferring the responsibility of organization & evaluation to your students
- Formative assessment
- Self assessment & Peer assessment
- Asynchronous Assignment Creation: Videos with assignment instructions, recorded by you, that your students have continuous access to
Creating Classroom Choice & Differentiation with Artifacts of Learning Iteration
Week 3
How do your students show their mastery in the application of new knowledge and skills? In this workshop, we’ll model and try classroom practices that allow students to show the evolution of their thinking and learning.
Hands-on topics include:
- Creating artifacts of learning that demonstrate craftsmanship and iteration toward mastery
- Applying new learning after mini-lessons
- Demonstrating how we solved a problem
- Building a portfolio that demonstrates mastery
- Making connections to the real world and real world audiences
- Building learning assignments on learning objectives
- Highlighting self/peer/teacher assessment for own work
Peer Interaction & Project-Based Learning
Week 4
How do students interact and collaborate online for lasting learning? In this workshop, we’ll focus on classroom practices that foster student collaboration and co-creation. We’ll emphasize iteration on original work based on self-evaluation and peer feedback. We’ll also look at ways for students to work together live and asynchronously to study together, complete group assignments, and help hold each other accountable.
Hands-on topics include:
- Using flipped classroom techniques to maximise live collaboration
- Creative collaboration through group work structures & protocols
- Student-to-student peer critique and feedback
- Iterative creativity toward mastery
- Opportunities to interact socially as well as academically
Family & Community Engagement
Week 5
Are the learning experiences we create for students connected to their lives and the real world? Can our students answer the “why” of their learning? In this workshop, we’ll explore classroom practices that ensure culturally responsive, real-world learning with an emphasis on including family and community into the learning experiences of our students.
Hands-on topics include:
- Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Connecting and reporting to parents/guardians through functions in Google Classroom and apps like Remind.
- Use culturally responsive strategies for Involving parents/guardians in their child’s learning.
- Authentic audiences in the community: Students building their learning around interviews with experts, research and problem-solving community challenges, and reporting to audiences and expertes who care, as well as service and leadership experience.
- Recognition & Celebration: How do you and your students celebrate their success?
Blended Learning Curriculum Integration
Week 6
How can we build on our holistic distance learning practices for engaging, rigorous learning through Covid and beyond? This workshop will focus on applying and incorporating the tools from previous workshops into our ongoing curriculum. What we have learned in our time of remote and hybrid learning will empower our students’ learning for a lifetime!
Hands-on topics include:
- Use of flipped classroom learning tools and platforms to share content knowledge before class so that class time can be used for knowledge application
- Use of formative or summative assessment platforms to monitor and intervene in student learning
- Managing student learning online to ensure student choice and agency