This fall, teaching feels like a tightrope act — a precarious balance of thoughtful design with having learning experiences for students right now; a need for students to be with one another with needed instructional distance in line with onsite protocols; and a desire to slow down and engage when students are scrambling to cover key topics and skills. This webinar will help you co-create challenging, compelling, and reflective learning experiences to keep students engaged and interested whether they are learning in a virtual, hybrid, or in-person model.

During the session, participants will explore illustrative examples and then select one to design an initial prototype during this webinar, which includes:

Drafting a weekly or unit curriculum storyline so instead of students seeing a list of assignments to do, they can see the purpose and relevance;
Creating contemporary assessment formats and scoring criteria to both motivate students and measure conceptual understanding and transfer; or
Developing instructional routine(s) that grow student autonomy and responsibility and engaging students in goal-setting, monitoring, and evaluation of performance.
By building educators’ capacity through these three instructional prototypes, participants will continue to design and communicate learning plans with families and students in mind. By clarifying the why (purpose and relevance), how (growing student autonomy), and the what (exploration of essential content, concepts and skills), the learning experience can result in more connected and impactful learning.