Most recent public comments by Ms. Mikaela Klein https://nowcomment.com/users/147517 https://nowcomment.com/documents/377143?scroll_to=3328809 https://nowcomment.com/documents/377143?scroll_to=3328809 When asked what comes to mind when I hear "online teaching and learning," I think of both the autonomous acquiring of knowledge in addition to a collaborative effort between educators, institutions, families, and learners. I have only been teaching for four years now, and my first year of teaching was during the COVID-19 pandemic. I was hired as a second grade teacher in 2019, excited to move to a new city, start working in a school, and learn everything I could to be a great teacher. Then COVID-19 hit. While I was still required to relocate, everything needed to be done remotely. I feel incredibly fortunate that the school system I worked for was extremely organized and on top of remote learning. I was also lucky that my team and co-teacher were amazing. I am still close to my old co-workers to this day and we still support in each other with in-person education strategies. My experience was not able to shift because my first experience was remote. Going back in person was another learning experience for me. Our faculty provided consistent team meetings via zoom, and lots of class-specific support meetings as well. My co-teacher and I were in constant communication overlooking the classwork our students were completing, creating interactive material and lesson plans, role playing lessons, and testing out zoom features our students could use. Online education was relatively new at the time for my school as a means of learning. Students were sent chromebooks to use and the already created curriculum had to be adapted accordingly. Originally, the fully online design was more similar to emergency remote teaching, since no one knew how long the pandemic would last or when we would return to in-person schooling. As it became clear we would remain remote, we shifted to an online-learning mentality. My personal definition of online teaching and learning is: the adaptation of course material to be interacted with online in an engaging and useful manner. I am not 100% sure how to add a picture but here is a link to an animated bitmoji banner my co-teacher and I created for our google classroom! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jYxKW_gyPzhKiFPxg2KuOrRCpt_RYjF_/view?usp=sharing Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:52:42 -0400