Teaching
in a time of COVID
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Not a story of perfection
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Not a prescription
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Spring semester
Me riding it out
What did I do?
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Cut content; acted flexibly & nimbly
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Slack + PollEverywhere + Google docs/slides
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Asynchronous short videos & exercises + synchronous discussion & mini lectures
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Two Courses: discussion + lectures at a liberal arts college (~20 students)
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I love Slack for communication & chats
Easy to and fro!
& accessible
outside of Zoom!
(I DO NOT use Zoom chat)
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Slack is great for teams & work with code
Dev. Econ
- Cut 3 chapters
- 2-3 person presentations (G-slides)
- Changed team project to individual reports
- Split take-home midterm exam into 3 weekly exercises
- Presentations changed to individual meetings
- Breakout rooms to discuss Poor Econ
Behavioral
- Cut 2 topics
- Cut 1 lab exercise
- Cut an experiment report
- Kept team projects, but adjusted expectations
- Split take-home midterm exam into 4 weekly exercises
- Breakout rooms for paper discussions & team meetings
Moral burdens & inequality
- Pressure: Students under incredible pressure
- New burdens: Sick friends/family; care work, jobs.
- Inequality: Consider your poorer students & your students of color
New things I haven't done
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Weekly student schedule
- Teach your students how to allocate their time if classes are remote/asynchronous
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Better & more short videos
- I used lightboard videos & iPad recordings
- I will be testing green-screen presentations
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Coach, coach, coach
- Coach your students on the tech you use
Books I'm reading
How do we get in touch?
Development
Behavioral
Teaching in a Time of COVID
By Simon D. Halliday
Teaching in a Time of COVID
A presentation for UCL's CTaLE TeachEconference, 17-18 June 2020.
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