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PLTW Online Learning Guide for Teachers
Deep Dive Into PLTW Distance Learning Support Webinar
The webinar explored PLTW’s distance learning support resources, demonstrated how to navigate myPLTW, discussed online learning best practices, previewed additional resources, and more.
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Access How-To Video Resources
A collection of videos to assist with many common activities in myPLTW.
These resources are available in the Resources section of the Distance Learning site.
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PLTW’s Online Learning Guides are now available!
These new guides will meet the needs of each audience and provide information about PLTW’s distance learning support, as well as guidance on creating a supportive online and blended learning experience based on research-based best practices. PLTW’s Online Learning Guides are now available!
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Take a Look at PLTW’s Embedded Distance Learning Enhancements
PLTW developed embedded curriculum enhancements directly in myPLTW to help teachers facilitate PLTW courses and keep students on track – wherever learning takes place.
Located in student editions and teacher guides, this content provides guidance including alternatives specific to individual activities, projects, and problems for a student who is not in the classroom.
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PLTW Network Resources
The resources listed below will help you plan and supplement your implementation of the PLTW curriculum where you find gaps in the content that is distance-ready. More resources will be added to this list as they are identified and created.
Community
Many Master Teachers from across the PLTW network have been creating and adding resources to myPLTW Community to help you continue honing your approach to distance learning. As more resources are developed, they also will be added. In myPLTW Community you will find resources such as:
- Tips from peers
- How-to videos
- Recorded "brainstorming" sessions with teachers
- Supplemental instructional material
Log in to your myPLTW Community group and search PLTW DL, and also PLTW DL MASTER INDEX for high school programs, to see a course-specific link to an evolving list of distance-learning activities and projects for your students. Also, use #PLTWDL in your posts about distance learning to enable others to easily find your content.
Live Zoom Discussions with Master Teachers
Master Teachers are coordinating Zoom meetings to discover and discuss solutions for distance learning needs.
Check your individual course-specific or program-specific groups in Community in myPLTW for the latest details on these meetings - including topics, times, and registration - and recordings of those meetings that have already occurred.
Distance Learning: Teaching Tips
Adapting to Teaching Online Pt 1 -
Adapting to Teaching Online Pt 2 - Harvard Business Publishing's 2-part, well-organized web page providing tips on how to quickly adapt to teaching online.