Blog 11 - Catlin Tucker's Blog
This week, Dr. Tucker shares helpful ideas for those who are teaching concurrently (both online and in-person students at the same time). She notes that it is so difficult to give students equitable treatment when they need help, because those in-person students are right there in front of you, requesting your attention. The first step in her protocol is to have students practice attempting to answer their own questions first, perhaps through Google, a tutorial, or a classmate.
If this doesn't help, the next step would be to provide a single method for students to contact you for help, so that neither group of students has an advantage. Several suggestions are listed such as using a Google Form, communicating through a learning management system (LMS) if you have that capability, using the Remind app, creating a Padlet wall for questions and requests, or using a site called ClassroomQ, which is a virtual que where students can request assistance and also see how many are before them in the que.
As Dr. Tucker notes, both of these steps are good practice whether teaching online, concurrently, or in person. We want to remind students to attempt to resolve their own questions before asking for help from others. She always has great ideas and I'm excited to experiment with some of these in my own classroom.
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