As a primary teacher, your students’ families become your co-teachers in a virtual classroom. So, it’s important to not only connect with new students but also their families. In this session, we’re giving you creative activities and ideas to build up home buy-in, set expectations, and begin to build relationships. You’re going to leave this session with a plan for how you will communicate, connect and support your students to set them up for success and take all of the mystery, confusion, and overwhelm out of the equation.
Primary Impactful Technology Use
Digital Citizenship for Little Learners
So many of our young students have not had opportunities to explore the world beyond their own schools and neighborhoods. As our youngest scholars become creators and participants in a larger learning community, it’s important that they have an awareness of the world around them! Let’s take a look at how to build geo awareness and global citizenship in our little learners, including in the digital world! In this session, we’ll look at resources and best practices for bringing the foundations of global awareness, global learning, and digital citizenship into our daily lessons. Highlighted tools will include Google MyMaps, Google Hangouts, and Common Sense Education.
Create Engaging Primary Lessons for Flexible Learning
Ready to save time creating primary lessons that will work for distance learning? In this session, you’re getting hands-on support to create lessons that will actually work for your classroom. Jamboard and Google Drawings are just two tools that will transform your lessons and help you infuse that interaction and engagement young learners need. In this hands-on make and take-style workshop, we’ll create lessons and activities your little learners can use right away.
Flexible Learning with Seesaw for Primary Learners: Math Focus
In this workshop, we’ll explore the components of learning math through a variety of tools and activities designed with young learners in mind. This session will mostly focus on Seesaw but may include a few bonus tools and tricks too. These activities can be used to support math instruction in traditional classroom instruction, as well as in a remote/online/blended learning model.
Flexible Learning with Seesaw for Primary Learners
In this workshop, we’ll explore the components of early literacy through a variety of tools and activities designed with young learners in mind, including Seesaw, Epic Books, Flipgrid, the Google Suite, and more! These activities can be used to support early literacy instruction in traditional classroom instruction, as well as in a remote/online/blended learning model.
