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Episode 23 - Twenty Online Engagement Tips
In this episode, John shares 20 strategies for increasing synchronous virtual classroom engagement. They are:
1. Seating charts – A great tool for keeping notes about your students, to help build connections.
2. Communicate early – Let students’ parents or guardians know early about issues, but do so in a non-confrontational way.
3. Crystal Clear Directions – Set cue, give time, task, materials, and drop cue.
4. Silence can be Golden – Give students quiet work time.
5. Chat Waterfalls – Give an opportunity for all students to write, and submit their answers simultaneously.
6. Breakout the Steps – Give all of the steps in breakout groups on breakout slides.
7. Assign Specific Roles – When working in breakout groups, assign each student a specific role.
8. Group Active Students Together – Reward active students with active partners in breakout work.
9. Gallery Walks – Allow breakout groups to show off their work through gallery walks.
10. Stations – Have students move to various stations to learn.
11. Escape rooms – Create escape rooms for students to work through, like this one from Peters Township Public Library in McMurray, PA: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflNxNM0jzbZJjUqOcXkwhGTfii4CM_CA3kCxImbY8c3AABEA/viewform
12. Choice Boards – Give students choice in how they engage.
13. Cold Calling – Call on various students to get a sampling of class understanding, not just volunteers.
14. Participation Squares – Divide screen space between participants, to have multiple participants working on screen at once.
15. Teach Routines – Just like in a brick and mortar school, teaching routines will save time in the long run.
16. Welcome Students by Name – This will start the session off right!
17. I Don’t Know Yet – Adding this choice to polling questions allows you to distinguish between students who don’t know the answer, and those who are not engaged.
18. Practice Success – Allow students to change their answer to the correct answer after reteaching.
19. Voice – Your body language becomes less important and your voice more important in an online setting. Use it well.
20. Find You Passion – Get excited about your subject area, and share that passion with your students.
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By Cyber PD PodcastIn this episode, John shares 20 strategies for increasing synchronous virtual classroom engagement. They are:
1. Seating charts – A great tool for keeping notes about your students, to help build connections.
2. Communicate early – Let students’ parents or guardians know early about issues, but do so in a non-confrontational way.
3. Crystal Clear Directions – Set cue, give time, task, materials, and drop cue.
4. Silence can be Golden – Give students quiet work time.
5. Chat Waterfalls – Give an opportunity for all students to write, and submit their answers simultaneously.
6. Breakout the Steps – Give all of the steps in breakout groups on breakout slides.
7. Assign Specific Roles – When working in breakout groups, assign each student a specific role.
8. Group Active Students Together – Reward active students with active partners in breakout work.
9. Gallery Walks – Allow breakout groups to show off their work through gallery walks.
10. Stations – Have students move to various stations to learn.
11. Escape rooms – Create escape rooms for students to work through, like this one from Peters Township Public Library in McMurray, PA: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflNxNM0jzbZJjUqOcXkwhGTfii4CM_CA3kCxImbY8c3AABEA/viewform
12. Choice Boards – Give students choice in how they engage.
13. Cold Calling – Call on various students to get a sampling of class understanding, not just volunteers.
14. Participation Squares – Divide screen space between participants, to have multiple participants working on screen at once.
15. Teach Routines – Just like in a brick and mortar school, teaching routines will save time in the long run.
16. Welcome Students by Name – This will start the session off right!
17. I Don’t Know Yet – Adding this choice to polling questions allows you to distinguish between students who don’t know the answer, and those who are not engaged.
18. Practice Success – Allow students to change their answer to the correct answer after reteaching.
19. Voice – Your body language becomes less important and your voice more important in an online setting. Use it well.
20. Find You Passion – Get excited about your subject area, and share that passion with your students.