Module 3, Session 7 focused on the importance of explicit instruction for all students. The steps of identifying a clear, specific objective, chunking information, modeling, verbalizing the thinking process, providing practice opportunities, and giving feedback could be challenging in a remote setting. Can you provide an example of you have achieved one or more of these steps in a remote or hybrid instructional setting?
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One way to be clear about the learning objectives is to provide a daily agenda with the learning target (s) for the lesson. The agenda should be posted in the class stream and discussion should take place over the learning targets in the beginning of the class. This way students will know exactly what is expected of them. Sharing short videos during the warm-up to build engagement and connecting the learning targets to the content is essential. For modeling, I have found that "I do, we do, you do" is an effective strategy even within the virtual environment. The teacher can model the behavior/ strategy on screen for the students and then have the students go into breakout rooms for the "we do" or participate together as one large group. Giving feedback is certainly challenging in a remote setting but we have found that monitoring students on Go Guardian and utilizing the chat feature to give feedback works best.