Dr. Gill is still recording. The video runs about three minutes, walks through the rhythm of the semester, and ends with his standing advice for teachers who are trying to take a graduate methods course while running a full classroom.
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Work through these in order, and budget about an hour for the whole sequence.
Put two hours on your calendar at the same time twice a week and treat them like a class period you would not skip on your students. Online graduate courses tend to fail in the cracks between teaching and grading and parenting, so the only defense is a recurring block other obligations have to schedule around.
In most of the assignments in this course, you apply theory to the students in your classroom, and you get more credit for specificity than for invention. The work goes faster with a lesson you already taught, a student who already exists in your roster (with the name changed at submission), and an assessment already in your gradebook. Examples in front of you beat examples imagined every time.
When you set up your Canvas profile, turn on email and push notifications, because announcements, grade postings, and assignment changes flow through the channel and an unread notification often becomes a missed deadline. The Canvas mobile app catches notifications the desktop browser misses after you have closed the tab and walked away.
Read every assignment prompt on the first day of the module. Close the tab afterward, and keep the question in the back of your mind for two days while you teach. By the second drive home you will already have half an answer in your head, and the first draft becomes a matter of getting it onto the page.
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