As educators approach fall and the reopening of schools, “we need to think together outside our fear bubbles,” says Sarah Brown Wessling, former National Teacher of the Year and a familiar face in many of the high quality how-to videos shared at The Teaching Channel.
Sarah Wessling continues to teach at Johnston High School in Johnston, Iowa and she truly understands the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on teachers, students and families.
We’re excited that Sarah and her colleague Paul Teske, who served as VP for Engagement at The Teaching Channel, have agreed to create a three-part Flipped Classroom and Online Learning series for the Alabama Best Practices Center. Paul’s expertise in educational online learning and Sarah’s well-documented status as one of America’s best public school teachers are sure to make this three-part series a powerful professional learning experience!
Maximum Flexibility
Our course series has been designed in 3 parts that will work to expand your understanding of the flipped classroom model in both the face-to-face and virtual context. During registration, you will be able to choose to take all 3 parts, 2 parts, or a single part. The cost for the course is $175/course or all three courses for $500. You will be sent an invoice following registration. See dates and times at the end of this post.
Quick Facts
Course topics:
1) Blended and Flipped Learning,
2) Online Curation, Playlists, and Teacher Video Production, and
3) Fostering Online Discourse and Collaboration
Paul Teske will be leading parts 1 & 2. Sarah Brown Wessling will be leading part 3.
Total Time Commitment:
4-6 hours per short course with synchronous and asynchronous learning and follow-up feedback. Six hours of professional learning credit will be awarded for each course.
Cost per participant:
$175/course or all three courses for $500.
***Enrollment is limited to 50 participants per course
***Please contact us directly if you would like to discuss courses for large cohorts of teachers from a single district.
TO REGISTER (and see bios of Paul and Sarah)
visit our Eventbrite registration page.
Sarah’s Chat with Cathy and Jackie
Sarah Wessling was our guest on this week’s Concise Conversations chat. Jackie and I talked with her about the current uncertainties that teachers all across the nation are experiencing – and what course participants can expect to talk about and learn. (We talked to Paul last week – listen in!)
Sarah said every teacher she knows “is clamoring to be in the classroom.” But no matter how we start school, online or in a safety-first physical school arrangement, “We are going to have to think of our classrooms in different ways.”
“I just want to remind teachers that they have it in them to do this,” Sarah says. There’s a lot of anxiety in us about how whether we can do this, but everything we need to do this well is already inside us – from our work in the regular classroom.”
“If you have to go online to teach,” she adds. “I don’t think it works for us to try to recreate our physical classrooms. We have to rethink what it means to teach in remote situations.”
You can join Sarah and Paul in doing some of that rethinking by registering for our three-part course. I hope we’ll see you there!
Course 1: Blended and Flipped Learning
Facilitated by Paul Teske
Course content launches July 27
with a live session
August 3 @ 9:00-9:30 a.m.
Course 2: Online Curation, Playlists, and Teacher Production
Facilitated by Paul Teske
Course content launches August 3
with a live session
August 5 @ 9:00-9:30 a.m.
Course 3: Fostering Online Discourse and Discussion
Facilitated by Sarah Brown Wessling
Course content launches August 5
with a live session
August 7 @ 9:00-9:30 a.m.
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