As a pedagogical advisor at the Oranim College of Education, I accompany groups of pre-service teachers (hereinafter referred to as students) in their practicum in a primary school. The second and third-year students are at the school one or two days a week throughout the school year. I have been at the Beit Zeev school a day a week for four years now. On the days that I am at the school, I meet with teachers and my students and observe my students teaching classes, small groups and individual pupils. At the end of the school day, I meet with the student cohort to discuss teaching, learning, and class management…
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Weekly emails: Helping students stay on track
Throughout the last academic year, I sent students weekly emails in each of my courses; I aimed to keep students connected during the period of extreme social distancing. Some of my courses were asynchronous, some were synchronous (via Zoom), and others were a flipped classroom format (asynchronous study units in preparation for synchronous classes on Zoom). I spent time and effort creating those emails and was determined that they wouldn’t get lost in the tsunami of correspondence that students receive from the college and beyond. I am happy to report that in interviews for my research, I heard from several students that the emails were helpful and supportive during the…
