Schooling During a Crisis - Pandemic Pedagogy Beyond Triage
Channel: Michael K Barbour
Date: 2020-10-15

TUC GSOE Diversity Now - Schooling During a Crisis: Pandemic Pedagogy Beyond Triage

Join the Graduate School of Education at Touro University California for their second “Schooling During a Crisis” webinar. In this session, Dr. Michael Barbour will explore ways that teachers can better design, deliver, and support the remote instruction that is expected for much of the 2020-21 school year; as well as how parents can begin to prepare for the school year to best support their children. The current pandemic forced teachers to shift from their traditional classroom-based teaching to an emergency remote environment. While emergency remote teaching may have used distance and online tools and content, this was not distance or online teaching. Online teaching takes preparation and planning, with the careful consideration of the strengths and limitations tools,  as well as which pedagogical strategies best suit the means of delivery and the affordances of that tool.

The crisis during the second half of the 2019-20 school year was an emergency. Like any emergency, teachers triaged their individual situation and made decisions about how to maintain some measure of instructional continuity for their students. As most school districts have begun the 2020-21 school year with plans for some form of remote learning, and at the same time many aspects of the economy are continuing to be opened, it is imperative both that teachers move beyond simple instructional triage and that parents be in a position to support their child’s learning in the home.

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