FAQs

pedagogy://virtual is for all teachers who have transitioned from in-person instruction to remote / virtual / online teaching because of COVID-19 or any other reason. This includes teachers who set up online classes with all students attending and teachers who record one-way lectures for students to review in their own time.

Our mentors have a track record of boosting student engagement and performance in a variety of scenarios.

We are also happy to work directly with school leaders (principals, vice-principals, academic coordinators, department heads, etc.) who wish to try this model out across their schools.

Until March 2021, we have pandemic-driven philanthropic support that pays for this program, so it is FREE for every teacher. After that, this may cost anywhere from $50-200 per teacher.

Our advice can be encapsulated into the following buckets:

• General instructional actions and strategies

• Classroom and behavior management and expectation setting

• Pedagogical content knowledge insights

• Using technology effectively to enhance your instruction

Even though we have clear rubrics, we rely on our judgement of where the teacher is and what can be most helpful for her in the moment in providing feedback and support.

If your assigned mentor is not able to attend a live class, and requests you to send a video, then you can be assured that no one other than the mentor and a trainee within our organization will be able to see the video.

There is multiple decades of research and evidence on what effective measures of teaching, specifically instructional feedback looks like. We base our feedback on the bedrock of this insight, and then apply findings from the past decade of what successful video-based, hybrid, and virtual / cyber classrooms do well.

We are also familiar with the ecosystems of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Hangouts, and try to capture the findings of their stakeholders.