Designing Student-Centered Pedagogical Practices for Digital, Hybrid, and In-Person Classrooms
In well-designed classrooms, all learners thrive. Whether those classrooms are face-to-face, virtual, or hybrid, effective pedagogy focuses on the student first. While virtual learning has become a critical part of our P-12 educational landscape, implementing best practices in pedagogy remains the foundation of quality teaching and learning. Pedagogy is human, not digital or in-person.
Successfully teaching students virtually requires student-centered pedagogical practices that engage all learners through effective instruction, student-centered feedback and assessment, and understanding how social, emotional, and cultural awareness contribute to student learning. By understanding best pedagogical practices, we can proactively create successful and equitable digital learning solutions for all students.
In this eight-week online course designed for school-based educators and designers of learning, participants will design a digital or hybrid lesson they can use right away.
Participants will learn how to adapt student-centered pedagogical practices in an equitable digital environment by:
- Fostering relationships with students in a digital learning environment.
- Recognizing social, emotional, and cultural awareness as critical components of virtual learning.
- Designing or adapting lessons for a digital or hybrid learning environment.
- Engaging learners through differentiated and inclusive digital instructional strategies.
- Providing authentic feedback to support student growth.
Facilitated by Laura Lee Summers, this course will help you and your team design digital lessons that teachers can teach, coaches can model, and districts can use as model designs of strong digital learning.
Course Facilitator
Laura Lee Summers is an Associate Clinical Professor and Program Leader for the Professional Learning, Learning Design & Technology graduate programs within the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado-Denver. When she graduated with her PhD in instructional design and blended learning, she wanted to connect learners in equitable online communities of practice. She has been designing and facilitating virtual, hybrid, remote, and face-to-face professional learning for the past twenty years within P-12, corporate, and higher education. She was one of the first K12 online professional developers and virtual coaches in Colorado. Laura also shares more resources and her publications on her website here. She can be followed on twitter: @lsummers