Teachers supporting teachers: SERIES 2 EPISODE 14 - Leaving a legacy as a teacher during COVID
Teachers supporting teachers: SERIES 2 EPISODE 14
Leaving a legacy as a teacher during COVID
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In this podcast episode we welcome back Dr Janet Salmons who continues to help us understand what is possible with online learning, and remote and flexible delivery. We draw on some big questions as you think about your role as a teacher and how you translate your why to the classroom virtually and remotely and energy impacts others. What does your presence looks like at this time? She encourages you to connect with yourself before you connect with others. Janet also asks you to think about your online persona.
Janet and I begin by thinking about how we set up the learning experience, culture, and how you can create the experience with our students. Janet invites us to think about, what can the students expect from you as a teacher? Who are you? Why are you here? How do you show your enthusiasm? How do you show this in the virtual classroom? What is it that makes you excited? And how do you show this?
As you think about your presence. What are your boundaries? What are the opportunities you want to set up. How do you care for yourself while you also care for your students. And how do you show a little bit about yourself while also maintaining your boundaries and your professionalism?
We chat about collaboration while working in the online space, unpacking some of the intricacies you need to think about. How do you set this up? What do you want to achieve? How can you utilise peer formation verses teacher scaffolding? And we talk about how you can set up frameworks for agreements of roles and responsibilities, plus ideal group sizing. Lots of practical ideas and considerations are shared by Janet on this topic.
Throughout the episode how you can be creative, supportive, and accessible with boundaries is shared with lots of reflective questions and also examples in amongst stories and insights into our experiences.
Janet encourages you to think about the bigger picture as well during this time. What is happening at home? How do we respect this? What is not being said that we need to be aware of? How you you utilise fun? otters spaces? other ways of working? How do you use time to support the experiencing of success? And what does engagement look like?
And I just love this question: What is your legacy at this time?
We are really encouraged to think about a new layer to working remotely during COVID. Here are some questions to spark your reflection:
How do you create this to be an occasion that gift to the young people we work with? What is the hope we can spark? Where are the moments of optimism?
What is right for right now? And what can you control right now? How can we support others right now? How can synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning experiences support being interactive?
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