In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, shares her strategies for facilitating opportunities for students to engage with peer work without having them all be online at the same time.
Entries by Ms. Christine Hitchcock, Lead Social Studies Teacher and Dr. Rebecca Itow, Principal
Screenside Chat: Structuring Lessons with Cues and Consistency
In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, offers suggestions for using visual cues to give your course a feel of consistency and improve students’ experience in an online course.
Screenside Chat: Breaking a Lesson into Bite-Sized Pieces
In this Screenside Chat, IU High School English teacher, Courtney Gaylord, explains why students don’t always read lesson instructions and how to change that!
Screenside Chat: Action Items for Encouraging Student Engagement with Content
In this Screenside Chat, IU High School English teacher, Courtney Gaylord, shares how and why she creates “action items” on course content to help students engage meaningfully with the information they are studying.
Screenside Chat: 3 Purposes of Feedback in Online Learning
In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, discusses three main purposes feedback can serve in online learning settings.
Screenside Chat: Building Relationships through Feedback
In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, shares how she builds relationships through the feedback conversations she has with students in her online courses.
Screenside Chat: Strategies for Giving Feedback
In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, shares strategies for giving feedback – and getting students to respond to it – in online course settings.
Spring Selection: The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
IU’s Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (OVPUE) joins the Spring IUHS READS! Book Club. All current IU High School students and families, as well as all IU affiliated faculty and staff are invited to join us in reading The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore!
Changing Perceptions of Online Learning
People often think that learning in an online school will be easier than learning in a traditional brick and mortar institution. It isn’t a matter of easiness, though. It is important that we realize that learning online and learning within a brick and mortar classroom are completely different experiences. One is not easier than the… Read more »
Shout Out to Rebecca Elkins, French Teacher
What I love most about teaching at IUHS is the diversity of my students. I have had students enrolled at Julliard and they needed a French credit so they enrolled at IUHS. I have also had students who are fabulous athletes who dedicate their day to their sport and evenings to their education. I love… Read more »