HOME LEARNING VIDEO AND PDF FILE STD 1 TO 12 DATE 17-10-2020

Home visits, parent/teacher conferences, meetings, and workshops are viewed as the most effective with all types of parents, especially hard to reach and/or low income parents

Communication and school restructuring. Parents need basic information regarding school goals, programs, and policies if they are to be effective in supporters. Schools must listen to what parents have to say about their involvement in the schools and then develop programs to meet identified parent needs 

Unless you have turned off all social media, the news, and decided to climb back into bed and hide under the covers, you have probably heard of the COVID-19 virus, known as the Coronavirus. Preparing for illnesses is always a difficult and serious affair, but it does give us an opportunity to think about how we can extend learning outside the walls of our classrooms and into the homes of our students. Access to devices and reliable internet When considering distance learning, school districts will need to consider if their student and family population have access to devices and reliable internet access before they go entirely digital.

Best practice suggests we offer students a mix of digital and analog tasks to complete in order to ensure all students have access to the activities and curriculum. On that note, there are some engaging and fun ways you can use technology to extend your classroom beyond your walls! Early Childhood and Lower Elementary Video Read Alouds One of my favorite ways to use technology, to engage families and students at home, is to offer video read alouds. As the educator, you can choose a read aloud book that connects to their learning and create a video of you reading the book. If you make the video, 

you will also be able to pause, point things out to the students, and ask questions. Video read alouds could be done live, through a platform such as Facebook or YouTube. Teachers and administrators who do this will often set up a live event on their school’s social media sites and parents are notified when the school is going live. Families love this type of interaction and it also gives them a way to see educators out of the school environment. If you don’t want to go live (it is not as scary as you think!) you could record the video ahead of time and still host it on social media or share it through Google Drive or Microsoft OneNote

Reading Foundational Skills To keep our little learners working on their 

fundamentals, teachers can share the Reading Foundational Skills Collection in PBS LearningMedia. This is a fabulous collection of short videos from iconic shows like Between the Lions and Electric Company and student interactives where our littlest learners to can investigate phonemic awareness through activities and songs. Elementary Videos, photos and online journaling Anyone who has worked in elementary schools knows that our students are tech savvy, but not tech experts. Because of this, technology lessons at home need to be user friendly for both the student and their families. 

Seesaw is a wonderful tool to help students capture their learning and experiences at home. Seesaw is an online journal that allows students to take and annotate pictures, make videos, and type answers to anything. Teachers create students in the class, but do not have to assign a digital activity for students to capture their learning, so it is very user friendly! At home students could: Make a video of themselves reading a bookTake pictures of different shapes in their house and identify themTake a picture of a math worksheet and record an audio overlay to explain how they solved the problem

assignments is not new to them. For many, though, teaching long distance is very new. One of the ways to share content and directions with your students is by creating screencasts of your presentations. A screencast is a video that includes the content on your computer screen as well as your voice and/or a video of you. It is a fabulous way for students to still hear from you and feel connected. Screencastify is a great tool to help you accomplish this task.