DAY IN MY [teacher] LIFE | Remote Learning Behavior Management + Home Office "Tour"!
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- T-Minus one week people, this is not a drill! Fortunately have learned much more about our plan and use of Google Classroom with littles since this video was filmed, but please leave any tips that have helped you already down below. Lucky to lean on and learn from this community during this weird season. Love y'all, mean it!
Lauren
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As a first grade teacher and first grade parent, I have realized that it is hard for a first grader to navigate the tools needed for online learning alone. It is hard to find someone to help them whenever parents have to work. So, I think you are doing the best thing by making sure that there are tasks that are not as difficult to login to or navigate. We are in person now. We are working on a platform that will be easy to navigate and sometimes be able to work on at their convenience in case we have to go online.
Duane, thank you so much for taking the time to comment and share your experience! I will keep this in mind as I continue planning for our start next week. Because we are expected to assign within google classroom, I have created some assignments that are focused solely on tech skills (drag and drop, typing into text boxes, etc.) without any academic content. I'm planning to model individual skills during our live sessions and then have them attempt it as an asynchronous task later that day. Hoping this will help us once we start to incorporate academics into the online work. Wishing you the very best with your school year! Also pinning your comment to keep a parents' perspective visible in this space.
@@puttingthemfirst Thank you! I also enjoy your videos and will continue watching and I serve how it goes for you. I'm hoping we don't have to go virtual. Good luck! We have 5 on our grade level, 1 is the virtual teacher and the other 3 and I are in person. We have 18-19 each.
I appreciate your energy and excitement for your job! I wish you the best of luck this school year!!!
Thank you so much for your comment - there will surely be new challenges this year but I prayed for this career far too long to take it for granted!
Putting Them First, yes agreed! I’ll be glad when I start teaching. Watching your videos excites me. I have a year and a half left.
Lauren, you are such a ray of sunshine! I love the idea of a silly headband as a class or student reward - that’s so cute! Also loving your at home office space & that you were able to Lauren-ify it!! 😂
love the headbands! Where did find them in target?
Ok I’ll be honest... I think I’m just as (if not more) excited for the rewards. And finally some pink up in here praise Jesus 😂💖 Your comments always make my day!
Shannon Lee They were $1 each in the bullseye playground kids costume stuff 🤩
Seesaw all the way its so much easier for Littles to use especially if they are on a tablet. But good for a chromebook too. They can write with their finger or a stylus, put in a text box or record themselves reading and you can link the seesaw activity to your Google classroom if you're school requires you to assign things through google classroom
Love your video, you make me smile, and love your ideas...thank you!
Happy to share a smile in this weird season. Thank you for taking the time to encourage!
I’ve missed you & your vlogs!! 🤩💖
I teach 2nd with google classroom! Basically, first of the year they are still first graders ..but google quizzes is amazing! Very simple for students to use and you create the quiz and get data! Kiddos do get better and they even taught me things! They are such quick learners!
Love your home office setup! 💜 Also, completely agree on the random teacher purchases and honestly people would never believe some of the things I have bought for random teacher occasions!
Hi! I love your videos so much they are so great for ideas!! I am a first year 2nd grade intervention specialist, and my district uses PearDeck in our google slides and it makes interactive draggables, questions, and draw slides that record their answers! It takes a bit to navigate, but it’s been working pretty well for my kiddos! Thought that might help with progress monitoring! Good luck this year!
Girl, you’re speaking to me all through this vlog. Class management and the google assignments. I feel ya. I have no clue how to make it age appropriate and simplified. So hard, not sure how we can.
Ah love the long vlogs!! 😍 Your home office came out so good!
I love your videos Lauren!!!
I love the new version of Pack-It - they used to only have a velcro closure, the zipper is really nice!
I just got the Pack-It lunchbox (watermelon is the cutest design) and I LOVE IT! It's perfect for keeping my lunch cold in my classroom while I teach. :) Thanks for the recommendation!!
Hi Lauren!
Happy early birthday fellow Virgo! 🥳my birthday is on the 10th. I completely understand your apprehension about rolling out Google Classroom for the little ones. I will say that creating a screencastify tutorial for parents and setting up a resource folder within Google Classroom will be extremely helpful. Just explaining to patents how to navigate within Google Classroom and how to submit assignments could help with future troubleshooting.
I totally agree about Google Classroom! I am teaching kindergarten in-person in the AM and a different group virtually in the PM. I’m expected to stay on-line in the afternoon for all 3 hours! Ugh. Coworkers keep saying Classroom is so easy but they don’t teach K. Just too much for 5 year olds to manage. You are making a good decision in my opinion.
You are right about the google classroom. As a parent it does require support....and a lot of support. So glad you are at least considering and thinking about it from their point of view
This is such a stressful year! Whenever you’re making videos of the google classroom keep it mind it looks different as student vs teacher. It might help to make another account & add that as a student so you can see what they see! I hope you have a good year!!
I teach kindergarten and we’re 100% virtual until October, and I have the exact same worries! The schedule and online resources our district is requiring are soooo not created for little ones. We’re doing a full day 7:30-2, all week long, and they’re expecting to basically be online all day. Even though I have no control of this I feel SO guilty “making” them do this & asking so much of parents! 😭
You’re seriously the sweetest! Your students are so luck! ...And my students are lucky because I’ve borrowed a lot of your ideas haha 😆💕
A virtual field trip is another option for your class reward. We "went" on several field trips - San Diego Zoo and Disneyland were favorites.
Fyi, your headaches could be from the fluorescent lights in your classroom, not your screens. I know of another teacher that has to hang twinkle lights in her class so she can shut off half of the fluorescents due to her getting migraines. The blue blocker lenses are great when it is night time, but during the day, be careful because if you block to much blue light during the day, it could throw off your circadian rhythms.
I use Seesaw with my kinder kids. I love it!! I explain it's Pinterest meets TeacherPayTeacher. Parents DO need to help with Text boxes and recording, but that's how our distance learning is set up.
I remember there was a program called ticket to read where the children would gain points by reading books and then use those points to decorate the clubhouse. So some of the rewards that you give while you were teaching online could be maybe little images of toys or decorations or a little furniture that they can put in the clubhouse I’m not sure how that would work but maybe each child could have a little clubhouse on the Google page that they could “buy” things for.
For behavior management for 5th grade, I just say, “Y’all can leave if you are going to talk over the teacher.” 😂
I say it after I’ve told them several times that we are getting started and when they spam the chat when it’s clearly not the appropriate time.
Still don’t know what to do about the ones that randomly unmute themselves to make weird noise, they do it so fast, I just don’t know who it is. Sometimes the other students tell on them tho. My school uses Google Meet so I can’t control the unmute or turn off that chat
😂 the headband try on ! I love her !
I also have a packet lunchbox and I love it
Hey Lauren! Please tell me more about that Go Fish game!
Check out the resource library that the University of Florida Literacy Institute has put together. They have lots of online reading resources pre-made, especially for primary teachers. They led a summer webinar and I think the videos are still available.
Julie Jones Such a great resource! I was actually UFLI trained while in the Proteach program at UF, so I’ve been using those already. Go gators! ❤️
I haven’t used Google classroom, but I am wondering if there is a way for them to draw or verbally record what they want to say as their answer. I know this isn’t the best solution and I wish I had better suggestions. Could you do a sort of Google form where they just have to check the boxes
We have the same birthday! I am way older than you but I love your videos and your love of bright colors and fun earrings lol!
OMG Happy (early) Birthday 😍 Thanks for your cheerful comment - fun earrings are my wardrobe staple!! lol
I am loving your compliment chart. Do the colors of the stars on the chart mean anything?
I love your home office. Can you tell me where you got your desk?
Your schedule sounds very similar to mine! We are live on google meets from 9-12 and then after that it's independent work that I post on Google Classroom.
Would you mind linking your desk and diploma frames?
Also, I am student teaching in first grade right now and my teacher has been having my students' parents upload pictures of their work to seesaw. I know this may be hard for students with working parents but that may help with submitting student work. Another fun thing that students could do if they are able to orate their response is use flipgrid and you can choose how long their videos are but they just click whatever link you give them, press a button to film a video through the app, and then they upload it directly to that link and all of the videos are in one spot and that is a great option for students to communicate what they know without having to type or write things out and then figure out how to upload that.
I love seesaw and flipgrid! But... we have been asked to keep assignments in google classroom only so things are uniform across the district and websites/apps are kept to a minimum. We'll have more guidance this week, fingers crossed we learn more about app usage!
The desk has sold out, but here's the link in case it comes back: www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/ivy-bronx-kunkel-l-shape-computer-desk-w001775828.html?piid=864945179
And these are the frames: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085MKMGXX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Teaching online is exhausting. We started last week and unfortunately my district isn't doing a very good job with screen time, so I'm glad you're only online for the morning. We're online live from 9-11:30 and 12:15-2:45. And I teach Kindergarten, so. It's been interesting! They did so great last week but having to be "on" like that for that length of time is definitely draining so you are not alone!
I can't imagine how exhausting it must be! Praying we'll be out the other side of this and able to safely come together soon. Keep doing amazing things for your kindergarteners. They are lucky to have you!
My first grader is online from 7:30-12:00 with a few 0:10m breaks.. then has reading groups and specials after lunch 😓
For google classroom, you can select make a copy and they don’t have to attach the file. They just move the pieces and click turn in.
We learned that this week - such a great hack! Thank you 💖
Where did you get your desk?
They will be able to navigate google classroom and slides. When assigning, you'll select make a copy for each student and they can submit easily. I made videos on how to navigate and presented during live lessons, as well as sent them to parents ahead of time.
This is helping me feel a bit better! Since I filmed this video, I have made some assignments that are solely for them to practice the tech skills (dragging and dropping, typing in a text box, etc.) without any content. That way they can learn these in isolation before introducing academics. Your comment gives me a lot of peace of mind - thank you!
Love this video!!!
Love this! You are the sweetest.
We have the same birthday! 🎉
One week!! Lol happy early birthday ❤️
Could you link where you got the desk?
We bought it on Wayfair, but it has since sold out. Here's the link in case it comes back: www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/ivy-bronx-kunkel-l-shape-computer-desk-w001775828.html?piid=864945179
Hi Lauren! Do you have a PO Box? I have something I’d like to send you!
+Putting Them First
Lauren ,
Believe it or not , it is My Birthday Month too .
To top it off , My Birthday is TOMORROW ( September 8th ) .
You almost got your video released on My Birthday . It was just one day off .
I hope that you have an awesome school year .
- Dwight
Happy early birthday! 😊
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Thank you Lauren !!
Happy Early Birthday to you as well .
- Dwight