Several months into remote or hybrid learning, you might be looking for ways to shake things up a bit, especially those of you who teach the youngest (and most wiggly) students. Even if you’ve heard them before, a little reminder could spark a new idea, so here are four tips for teaching kindergarten in a hybrid/remote setting, plus notes on how our Kindergarten Stepping Stones program can help!
Take advantage of location
Accurately and ethically measuring student knowledge was already a challenge before the COVID-19 pandemic turned the educational world upside down. From concerns about the inherent biases of standardized tests to the question of how to differentiate assessments for students’ learning styles, the issue of testing is complex … and trying to do it through a computer screen in a remote or hybrid learning environment makes it infinitely more complicated.
As the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools in March of 2020, the focus of many parents, teachers, and administrators was on how students would make up the academic content they were going to miss. How would we ensure that students hit the educational milestones necessary to keep them on track?
But even as members of the educational community were focusing on these important academic issues, many were also voicing concerns about the social-emotional well-being of the students. How would we support them as people—not just students, but people—through this crisis?
In the fall of 2020, Kendall Hunt (KH) Religious Publishing launched our latest curriculum, a brand-new high school biology program called ByDesign Biology. Already being used in more than 20 classrooms across the country, this faith-based curriculum offers high-quality, research-backed scientific information written and developed by the KH team and contributing writers.
Welcome back to our two-blog series featuring the thoughts of Brianna Johnson, one of the first educators across the country to implement our brand-new ByDesign Biology program!
In our last blog, we shared how Brianna appreciates the faith-based foundation of our high school biology program, along with the way in which the textbook balances both creationist and evolutionary theories. Today, we take a look at the nitty-gritty: the structure of ByDesign Biology and the many ways it’s helped Brianna’s students succeed!
When you purchases a new electronic gadget these days, the instruction manual seems to fall into one of two categories: either it’s a book-length, meticulously detailed packet with dense language that sails over your head, or it’s one page of diagrams with little other information on assembly and operation. Either way, you, as the user, are left confused and frustrated, unsure how to even turn on your purchase, let alone use it to its fullest potential.
