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How To Set Up Your Virtual Classroom

July 23, 2021 teachersbrain Back to School, Distance Learning

The end of summer is rapidly approaching! With the pandemic ongoing, many teachers may be preparing for another year in a virtual classroom instead of in person. For teachers used to teaching face to face in the classroom, things are different and you have to come up with new ways to do pretty much everything. This could either be exciting, or overwhelming. If you are feeling overwhelmed about it, don’t worry! I am here to help.

While teaching virtually is a learning curve at first, you will soon learn that it can actually be fun! Going digital gives you so many more teaching resources to choose from. You can use Boom Cards, videos, audio, Google Slides, games, and last but most certainly not least, self-grading resources!

Teaching virtually saves you valuable time grading, prepping, printing, and more. Furthermore, Google Slides make it so easier than ever to personalize your teaching resources and make them your own. What’s not to love!

If you are just getting started with virtual learning and need some help getting your virtual classroom set up, I have you covered!

My Virtual Classroom Templates will have you set for distance learning.

These editable templates are made with Google Slides so they are quick and so easy to use. They make it simple to decide which slides you want to use with your class, and delete what you don’t want. You can add clickable links, forms, images, a quiz, or videos of you to personalize your classroom.

Feeling nervous about how to use them? Don’t worry! I created a YouTube video instructing you on how to use it and make it your own.

Included with this virtual classroom resource, you’ll get:

15 Google Slide Templates for Home Room, Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Music, PE, Centers and a Brain Break. These include home buttons of the slides so students can use presentation mode and easily find their schedule on the Home Room slide.
18 Google Slides with links for a DEMO. There are extra slides from my own digital resources for you to use as a demo or in your own presentation or if you are K-2, you can use the demo for an emergency sub plan if needed.
3 Page PDF with Directions

Slides are 11 x 8.5 so you can add other slides that can be printed out by the students at home if needed.

This will make teaching in a virtual classroom a breeze, guaranteed!

If you are looking for more digital resources, check out my post here on how to create a virtual All About Me presentation for Back To School night. Or, if you are looking for a way to do calendar time virtually, check out my virtual calendar resource here!

Are you teaching in person or virtually this year? Let me know in the comments!

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September 7, 2020 teachersbrain Back to School, Promotions

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Back to School Checklist and Tools for Teachers with Social Distancing in Mind

July 23, 2020 teachersbrain Back to School, Distance Learning, Teaching Tips

This year is going to be different than any year we have ever taught before thanks to Covid-19. The best thing you can do now is get a jump start on classroom organization. I like to have checklists and a lot of teaching tools at my fingertips before I begin the school year in order for my days to go as smooth as possible. The best advice someone gave me once was to always plan and if the plan doesn’t work in teaching, change the plan.

Checklists for Teachers

Here is a list of things you can add to your own checklist for this school year. I have a free social distancing checklist download on TpT you can use if you don’t want to make your own.

Gather and organize classroom materials and supplies. (Include safety supplies, masks and hand sanitizer)
Distance seats from each student.
Make it a rule that kids need their own water bottle to keep kids out of the water fountain.
Create individualized bins for each student for supplies.
Prepare student name tags and/or student desk labels.
Organize your files.
Label all furniture in the classroom.
Create an emergency substitute folder.
Label textbooks, workbooks, and supplies.
Set up your grade book.
Make the first day of lesson plans very detailed.
Have rules for the NEW social distancing guidelines if you are in person.
If you are doing virtual or a blended version of both, create those rules.
Decorate your room to help students remember new safety guidelines.
Plan icebreakers for each day the first week of school.
Have a classroom calendar and schedule in the classroom.

Teacher Toolkit

In order to help you with all the new social distance guidelines and distance learning, I got together with some of my favorite teacher authors to bring you some teaching tools you can use in this Back to School Tools for Teachers! This is exciting because some of these are resources are way too time consuming for teachers to create. There are a few freebies in the mix too.

Here are the resources for your Distance Learning Teaching Toolkit:

$Math and ELA Toolbox Distance Learning$

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