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Designing a Digital Classroom Space
Online and Blended Learning, Curriculum Strategies | Pre-K-12
For many teachers, setting up the classroom is one of their favorite parts of the school year. But what does it look like to set up a classroom when you're teaching online? How can you design a digital space that's inviting and that encourages students to engage with you, their peers, and learning material? In this course, you'll learn best practices for creating a successful online experience for you and your students. You'll explore issues such as whether a learning management system is right for you and how to create a schedule that balances large-group, small-group, and one-on-one instruction. Finally, you'll develop strategies for designing effective online assessments and creating a thriving sense of community in your online classroom. By the end of the course, you'll have a plan for creating a digital classroom space that your students love to learn in.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Tips for promoting a community of growth mindset learners as a part of creating a supportive and safe community
- Understanding and tools needed to implement a backwards design process in planning for online instruction to ensure that the needs of all students are being supported as they move toward mastery of the content presented
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Incorporate the 10 online teaching best practices into a plan for designing a digital classroom.
- Develop a plan for how you will create a cohesive classroom community in your digital classroom.
- Evaluate whether or not your digital classroom will require a learner management system, and develop a plan for implementing use of it if needed.
- Create a schedule for your digital classroom that includes instruction for large group, small group, one on one, and virtual office hours.
- Develop assessments for content to be covered in the digital classroom.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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