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A practitioner's perspective on math, education & change.
Using SEL supports in a remote classroom
Online learning is not the same as in-person learning, ensuring social and emotional connections to support both student and staff are critical. Here are a few ways to integrate SEL supports into your online spaces.
First Day of Online Teaching: Part 2
Part 2 in our “First Day of Teaching Online” Series: Recommendations for orienting students to the class through a syllabus quiz and assessing students’ prior and required knowledge through a pre-assessment.
First Day of Online Teaching: Part 1
This first blog in the series designed to help you prepare for the first day of teaching an online class, focuses on getting to know your students and building relationships when you are not able to see them every day.
5 Practical tips for online teaching that you can only get from another teacher
5 practical elearning tips and tricks from Dr. Maria Andersen. They are practical and come from someone who has taught remotely and online for more than a decade. They are tips you can only get from other teachers.
But is it Googleable? Online testing in the age of COVID-19
One of the number one concerns of math teachers as they are testing online is the issue of cheating. It’s a valid concern and one that should be addressed. Here are few “tested” strategies that you can incorporate during your assessments.
Using Desmos for Online Testing
Watching the evolution of the training we're providing and how we're adjusting it to make it work better for faculty has been really rewarding. Maria is so knowledgeable on so many areas. Because of that, we're branching out to all STEM fields, not just math and science, as well as economics and finance, to help with teaching online at the college level.