This January, we embarked on a new endeavor to bring school leaders and teachers together with the TLAC team to do what we love to do: study video of exceptional teaching. Studying video is at the heart of what our team does; it’s how we unearth the techniques in all our books and workshops. And even…
Hybrid instruction can feel a bit like juggling–it offers all the challenges of in-person teaching while you also teach an online lesson. But a good model can really make a difference so this video of math teacher Jill Mattis (Bethlehem Central Middle School (NY)) is super-helpful. As a double bonus, I got to ask Jill some…
The Cognitive Psychologist Daniel Willingham had a useful Op-Ed in the LA Times last week in which he discussed the ways that online learning is cognitively strange (my phrase; blame me if you don’t like it)–that is, it asks us to interact socially in ways we aren’t used to and haven’t evolved for and that are…
Good online instruction will probably always involve a combination of synchronous and asynchronous methods. After all they have different strengths and limitations. Synchronous instruction allows us to connect with students and build relationships. And it lets us understand and support their learning in real time. But asynchronous instruction deals better with technology problems: it resists glitchy…
I’m happy to post another really useful example of a video with some good ideas for online instruction. This one comes from Chloe Hykin and her colleagues at Marine Academy Plymouth, in Plymouth, England. The opening of Chloe’s asynchronous lesson is a really well executed example of some things we’ve been describing on this blog: Warm,…