Skill
Areas of Impact
Age Group
Adult
Length
30 minutes
Frequency
As needed
Type
Distance Learning from a Student Perspective - Notetaker for SPED and Support Staff
Overview
This activity is best done in a fairly large group (at Gateway, it was an all-faculty meeting), and will take a little bit of advance preparation: you’ll need to set up several dummy accounts on Google Classroom (or whatever learning platform your school is using) and “enroll” them in a standard course load. Small teams of teachers will then “shadow” the student – surveying a day or week as a student would to get a sense of what works well and what is confusing.
Implementation
This handout is for Special Education and Support staff, and focuses on how staff can identify strategies to help different learners overcome barriers to accessing their education via a distance model.