Rebecca Wallace

I wish I had read this section before designing my first nine-weeks lesson plans.  I will take these thing into account as I go forward.

I understand that feedback is the most important part of holding the students' attention but if it's not immediate, something that requires time to grade, I struggle finding the time in this new learing world.

I learned that the data about synchronous learning is out of date.  In the last 6 months (which feels like over night), our education world in K-12 has turned to Synchronous concurrent (students in the classroom and online at the same time) teaching.  I don't like it at the same time I'm fascinated by how our current technology was able to handle the change.  When I was in middle school, we would have had none of these things.  I am also in awe of the teachers being able to go from F2F to online with relatively few hiccups.  I think… >>>

I learned the effectiveness questions for testing tools.  I thought back to a failed lesson earlier in the year and how I had to adapt the lesson in the moment and how I changed it for the next class meeting.

I have learned that the concepts in this section, in particular, feel dated.  With the recent increase of video-conferencing, the idea of mostly asynchronous teaching may be best for some types of courses but others, especially with young students, require a continued face-to-face format.   

Attendance

Now that we have taught for a couple of months online during the pandemic, I disagree with this answer.  It does help because the students can view a clip more than one time for meaning but, online meetings are better for knowing the students really understand the information.

The information in this course is looking at small class sizes and older students.  While much of the information will work with my students, a course with 15-20 students is very different than one with 120-150 students.

In my recent experience, I have learned that not all students like to work linearly.  If the concepts build on one another, I need to be more thoughtful about creating opening and due dates for the lessons.