Shifting to Digital: A Guide to Engaging, Teaching, and Assessing Remote Learners

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Product Description Rely on Shifting to Digital to deliver clear and concise answers to all of your remote teaching questions. This comprehensive guide provides specific strategies for planning high-engagement instruction, handling technology, assessing collaboration and assignments, and more. You'll also gain access to a helpful list of digital tools, along with online-specific lessons and projects for various subjects. Learn how to engage and manage multiple students online at one time. Create effective lesson plans that incorporate synchronous and asynchronous instruction based on best-practice cooperative learning and project-based learning. Gauge students' executive function and increase their self-direction--a crucial part of online learning. Understand how to best teach and support English learners and students with special needs. Plan communications for students, parents, and guardians that address technology procedures, expectations, and privacy. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Technology Chapter 2: Instructional Planning Chapter 3: Document Handling Chapter 4: Mindful Engagement Chapter 5: Positive Interaction and Social-Emotional Learning Chapter 6: Feedback Chapter 7: Assessment Chapter 8: Students With Special Needs Chapter 9: Communication With Parents and Guardians Epilogue Appendix: Distance Learning Lesson and Project Designs References and Resources Index About the Author James A. Bellanca is internationally recognized as a practical innovator who provides teachers and administrators with the how-to knowledge to make abstract ideas concrete and ready to go on the next school day. He is a senior fellow with the Partnership for 21st Century Learning and was founding editor of its innovative online publication P21 Blogazine. He is the 2013 recipient of the Malcolm Knowles Award for lifetime contributions to the field of self-directed learning from the International Society for Self-Directed Learning. Gwendolyn Battle Lavert, PhD, is an international literacy specialist. She is a former elementary principal of Frances Slocum Elementary in Marion, Indiana, and a leadership and literacy expert in the Middle East, where she led curricular improvement and professional development initiatives and aligned those efforts with the district's progress as a professional learning community. Gwendolyn has been an educator since 1974, with background as a teacher, district literacy specialist, and district administrator in a variety of school settings. Her experiences range from working in a predominantly low-income minority school to some of the most affluent and high-performing schools, including Highland Park Elementary School in Texarkana, Texas. She has been an assistant professor at the College of Education at Indiana Wesleyan University, where she taught foundations of early literacy and literacy in the content area. She also taught graduate courses in leadership and led several master’s cohort groups. Kate Bellanca has 20 years of experience working directly and digitally with districts, schools, families, and other helping professionals to improve learning outcomes through professional development. Her aim is to ready educators to increase student achievement, cognitive and digital skills, and social-emotional learning outcomes. Long before COVID-19 arrived, Kate was providing online instruction for educators and showing them how to adapt common digital tools for communicating with distant students and parents. She has overseen the development and distribution of statewide practical graduate-level courses for educators, professional development models, and customized school change models. Kate's collaborative work style always includes up-to-date, practical-to-implement, research-strong strategies and the digital tools necessary to improve instruction. In her face-to-face and online collaborations with schools in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, her passion to help teachers enhance ev