Google Classroom for Teachers (2020 and Beyond)


Book Description

Do you make use of Google Classroom to support your online and virtual teaching activities? Are you having difficulties navigating your way around the usage of this tool? Do you want to figure out in simple steps how to max out this tool to provide an engaging and fun learning experience for your students? If so, then read on… If you are a teacher or an instructor and you have been carrying out your teaching duties despite the odds in the world today, then you must have heard about Google Classroom. Google Classroom is a handy tool developed by Google corporation and designed to leverage the power of the internet to make distance learning possible and seamless. This software has shown to be the go-to options of millions of teachers and students across thousands of schools and learning institutions because it has a ton of functionalities that are able to simulate the physical learning experience to a very large extent. Despite the usefulness of this powerful tool, especially in this age and time, many teachers are in the dark or are not so enlightened on how to make the most out of it. For these teachers, they turn to many resources scattered across the internet in search of answers – many times, all to no avail. Well, if you are in this position, or you want a detailed but yet simple guide to step up your teaching game, then you are in the right place because in the pages of this book, you will; 1. Gain deeper insight into the inner workings of Google Classroom. 2. Learn how to set up Google Classroom in simple steps and optimize it for your use as an instructor while still bearing in mind the needs of your students. 3. Be able to create assignments for your students and attach documents to your assignments using Google Docs. 4. Be able to create timed quizzes for your students, add the quizzes to your classes as well as view and grade assignments submitted by your students. 5. Gain expert knowledge on how to step up your online teaching and coaching game through the use of Google Meet to host virtual live meetings with your students. 6. Be shown a ton of tools and extensions you can incorporate into Google Classroom to make the experience for you and your students more engaging. 7. Be exposed to a number of frequently asked questions that most Google Classroom teachers and instructors throw up. 8. Discover a ton of tips and tricks that you should have up your sleeve to provide a more enhanced and fun learning experience for your students. And a whole lot more! There are a lot of salient topics that are covered in this book – topics that are related to getting you equipped with the needed information to make the most out of this amazing distance learning tool. This book aims to help you fully maximize the Google Classroom tool and to take you many steps ahead in your career as a teacher. Waste no further time other than getting a copy of this book RIGHT NOW to get instant access and begin providing a fun and engaging teaching and learning experience for you and your students.




Diverse Learning in 2020 and Beyond


Book Description

This volume brings together articles and narratives exclusively written to encourage and assist a variety of educational professionals in the disciplines of preschool education, elementary education, higher education, arts, teacher development and leadership. It also touches on areas of multicultural studies in the humanities and the social sciences. The material and information provided here serves as an excellent resource for university coursework and as a supplemental reading tool for journal reviews, response reports and additional groupwork and online course assignments. This text will be of particular interest to educators, principals, school administrators, speech pathologists, psychologists, students, teachers and other college and university personnel within a variety of diverse disciplines.




Next Level Teaching-Beyond Pandemic 2020


Book Description

How do schools reopen safely during a pandemic? How can they make informed decisions that will allow students to begin learning again at levels surpassing pre-pandemic status? What will designs of post-pandemic schools look like? What key roles will technology play in these schools? What measures will allow students and staff to feel safe again, even with an invisible enemy still lurking? Answers to these critical questions can be found in this desperately needed resourceful book!




Emergency Remote Teaching and Beyond


Book Description

This timely volume addresses issues pertaining to language teaching, learning and research during the pandemic. In times of a global emergency, the aftermath of emergency remote teaching (ERT) cannot be ignored. The question of how language educators and researchers unleash creativity and employ strategies vis-à-vis ERT still remains to be answered. With practitioners in mind, it covers a broad spectrum of educational settings across continents, target languages and methodologies. Specifically, it reveals viable ways of utilizing digital technologies to bypass social distancing while highlighting the pitfalls and challenges associated with crisis teaching and research. This volume comprises two parts: Teacher Voice vicariously transports readers to practitioners’ compelling stories of how teacher resilience, identity and professional development are crystallized in adaptive pedagogy, online teaching practicum, virtual study programs and communities of practice during ERT. The second part, Researcher Corner, showcases innovative approaches for both novice and seasoned researchers to upskill their toolkits, ranging from case study research and mixed methods designs, to auto- and virtual ethnography and social media research. The array of food for thought provides a positive outlook and inspires us to rethink our current practices and future directions in the post-COVID world. Regardless of their backgrounds and experiences, readers will be able to relate to this accessible volume that harmonizes research and practice, and speaks from the hearts of all the contributors.




Education Technology in the New Normal: Now and Beyond


Book Description

The proceedings of the International Symposium on Open, Distance, and E-Learning (ISODEL 2021) share ideas, either research results or literature reviews, on distance education, media, and education in the digital era. Some recent issues consist of innovative education in the digital era, new media Industry 4.0, Digital Education Transformation, Character Building, Vocational Education 4.0, and Preserving Future Children Characters and Culture. It is expected that the proceedings will provide new insights to the knowledge and practice of education and education technology research. Therefore, such parties involved in education research such as academics, practitioners, business leaders, and others will benefit from the contents of the proceedings.




Global Higher Education During and Beyond COVID-19


Book Description

This book offers insights into how higher educational institutions and educators have responded to the immense challenges of managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by global experts in the field of higher education, it offers a multidimensional overview of the digital transformation, governance, and social justice issues within higher education institutions during the pandemic. It provides theoretical insights and conceptual analysis of the emerging trends in global higher education, the challenges, and possible ways to address them to shape more sustainable, qualitative, and socially equitable higher education for future generations. The book appeals to academics and students engaged in the education community.




Leading Schools Through and Beyond the Pandemic


Book Description

Much of the literature has relied on others commenting on the work of educational leaders, rather than the voice of the leaders driving the commentary. There have been few studies attempting to capture principal voices within and between countries. The International School Leadership Development Network (ISLDN) was formed in 2009 and has had scholars from more than 20 countries involved (Barnett & Woods, 2021). In response to the pandemic, the ISLDN embarked on a study that analyzed the impact Covid-19 had on the school leaders and the way that they lead. The study captures a unique timeframe as the school leaders were still leading through the pandemic and adjusting to leadership after a global pandemic. In this book we are using these cases to describe how principals not only led their schools during the pandemic, but what they are doing as we come out of the pandemic. What makes this book different from many of the other publications about education and the pandemic is: A) Principal voice is often missing from research and writing about the educational impact of the COVID pandemic. B) The book draws upon empirical research conducted in 2022. It is reporting on principal case studies collected as part of the research of the International School Leadership Development Network. There are 37 principal cases from seven countries, and 25 writers. These cases have not been reported elsewhere and were collected especially for the book. C) The cases are focused not only on how principals led their school through the pandemic, but how they are leading beyond the pandemic. A feature of the cases is reflection on enduring changes to education and the implications for future educational leadership. D) Whilst principals discuss their responses to the various mandates and pressures, and what worked well and what could have been done better, they also reflect on the support they gave others, and the support they got.




Online Education During COVID-19 and Beyond


Book Description

This book aims to provide sustainable solutions for better understanding and management of online education in different parts of the world. In this context, it explores the attitudes and perceptions of stakeholders, such as students, faculty, and other actors on issues related to online education. In particular, it examines the challenges they have faced over the years when online courses were introduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A model is proposed that includes five variables: specific communication issues in online education, the ability of professors to offer online courses, the quality of online education, students' perceived stress during online education, and the technical requirements of online education. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the new and future ways of teaching and learning. Chapter "When a Phenomenon-Based University Course Went Online: Students' Experiences and Reflections After Sauna Bathing" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.




Teaching In and Beyond Pandemic Times


Book Description

Here for the first time is an account of the inner lives of teachers during and immediately after the pandemic lockdown. What is teaching like during a pandemic? How did teachers manage their emotional lives as colleagues became infected, hospitalised, and died? What did teachers actually do to bridge the gap in teaching and learning where schools and homes lacked electronic resources? These are amongst the many questions on which this collection of teacher stories sheds light. Most of these are stories of hope, resilience, and enormous courage in the face of a deadly virus. Your faith in teachers and teaching will be restored after reading this book.




Language Teacher Education Beyond Borders


Book Description

This volume looks at the preparation of future critical language teachers in the face of an increasingly multilingual and transcultural contemporary world. This is seen through the lens of the collapse of Nation-State borders that crumble in the face of migration and the intense flow of languages that comes with it. It brings together international research that problematizes, theorizes, re-positions and re-conceptualizes myriad structural, systemic, ideological, political and pedagogical issues that intersect with the possibilities and impossibilities of the development of language teachers' agency. The volume examines the needs of linguistically diverse student populations and considers the socio-cultural and socio-political barriers that interfere with the exercise of teacher agency for social justice in language classrooms. It offers a theoretical and empirical overview of how language teacher education has addressed multilingualism and transculturalism in critical approaches in many complex countries in their diversity and/or postcolonial history, including Brazil, Qazaqstan, Scotland, and Thailand.