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Connected Classrooms
A People-Centered Approach for Online, Blended, and In-Person Learning (Create a positive learning e
Kathryn Fishman-Weaver(0)
About
Reimagine your school community. This practical guidebook will help you shift your mindset of online and blended learning from "backup plan" to unprecedented opportunity for rich connections and high-level learning. New and veteran teachers alike will gain insight on how to build in-person and online relationships with students and coworkers to achieve a learning community that supports social-emotional learning, equitable and inclusive instruction, and academic success.
Educators of hybrid learning environments will:
• Understand why relationship-building is fundamental to student success and gain best practices for establishing this foundation
• Discover new blended, online, and in-person strategies for strengthening connections with your diverse students
• Gain strategies for offering instruction that is affirming, representative of our diverse world, and rooted in equity
• Be empowered to think critically about and to change systems currently in place that limit students' ability to connect and thrive
• Choose strategies that fit your teaching style from the myriad of vibrant experiences contributed by educators around the world
Contents:
Preface: Our Journeys to Blended Education
Introduction: People-Centered Approaches to Teaching
Part I: Reimagining the Online Classroom
Chapter 1: Reimagining School as a Global Community Project
Chapter 2: Cultivating Strengths-Based Approaches for Inclusion, Support, and Counseling
Chapter 3: Fostering Relationships Through Connection-Based Feedback
Part II: Inclusive Practices: Diversity and Equity in the Online Classroom
Chapter 4: Centering Student Stories
Chapter 5: Honoring Multilingual and Multicultural Learners
Chapter 6: Accelerating Opportunities for Gifted and Talented Students
Epilogue
Appendix
Glossary
References and Resources
Index
Educators of hybrid learning environments will:
• Understand why relationship-building is fundamental to student success and gain best practices for establishing this foundation
• Discover new blended, online, and in-person strategies for strengthening connections with your diverse students
• Gain strategies for offering instruction that is affirming, representative of our diverse world, and rooted in equity
• Be empowered to think critically about and to change systems currently in place that limit students' ability to connect and thrive
• Choose strategies that fit your teaching style from the myriad of vibrant experiences contributed by educators around the world
Contents:
Preface: Our Journeys to Blended Education
Introduction: People-Centered Approaches to Teaching
Part I: Reimagining the Online Classroom
Chapter 1: Reimagining School as a Global Community Project
Chapter 2: Cultivating Strengths-Based Approaches for Inclusion, Support, and Counseling
Chapter 3: Fostering Relationships Through Connection-Based Feedback
Part II: Inclusive Practices: Diversity and Equity in the Online Classroom
Chapter 4: Centering Student Stories
Chapter 5: Honoring Multilingual and Multicultural Learners
Chapter 6: Accelerating Opportunities for Gifted and Talented Students
Epilogue
Appendix
Glossary
References and Resources
Index