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Socially Distant But Digitally Connected: How One Online Literacy Teacher Educator Responded To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Robert A. Griffin
Socially Distant But Digitally Connected: How One Online Literacy Teacher Educator Responded To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Robert A. Griffin
Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education
In this perspectives piece, the author, a literacy education teacher educator, discusses his struggles several years earlier to adapt and transfer a conceptually dense face-to-face course to an online format—a struggle with which many of his colleagues who were faced with transferring their courses to an online format in light of the COVID-19 and institutional closings could identify. He describes how he organized his online course, including the design of the modules and assignments along a scaffolded, simple-to-complex structure. The challenges during this pandemic are especially pronounced for teacher educators who have less experience with online teaching. The author envisions …