Stanford instructors help teachers prepare for virtual classrooms | Teaching & Students - Stanford University News

Kathleen J. Sullivan - Stanford News - Stanford University writes, The summer course, Teaching Your Class Online courses – a collaboration of Stanford Online High School and Stanford Continuing Studies – attracted thousands of middle school and high school teachers from across the country and around the world.

Lisa Hicks, who teaches philosophy at Stanford Online High School, was one of seven instructors who led small group sessions during the “Teaching Your Class Online” course designed for middle school and high school teachers.
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One of the most important lessons Sophie Abitbol learned during the Stanford course, “Teaching Your Class Online: Essentials and Practice,” was to keep things simple – technology-wise – when she welcomes students into their virtual classroom this fall.

“We have to be realistic and start with what we know, which is teaching and kids,” said Abitbol, who teaches English to 9th and 12th graders at Burlingame High School, a public high school in Burlingame, California. “The technology bells and whistles will follow.”...

Teaching philosophy remains the same Meg Lamont, who co-taught the essentials course with Latin instructor John Lanier, said one of the first things instructors told teachers was that their teaching philosophy remains the same whether they are meeting their students in a physical classroom or online.
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