Book Review Connecting with Students Online by Jennifer Serravallo
Review by Monique Belin
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The coronavirus pandemic has tried to turn our lives upside down. It has impacted almost everyone since the spring of 2020 when educators had to quickly pivot to provide traditional inperson teaching practices into a remote learning format. While the pandemic has allowed teachers to dig deep into their creative teacher bag and find innovative ways to teach in a digital space, it has not changed the meaning of what great teaching looks like. Drawing from feedback received from fellow educators, author Jennifer Serravallo wrote Connecting with Students Online, a book that discusses and shares over 50 strategies on how
teachers can improve the quality of distant learning through seven C’s: collaborating, communicating, connecting, caring, conferring, clarity, and compassion. Seravallo’s vision for this book was centered around how to lead small groups, provide assessments to students and monitor for understanding, and how to keep students engaged in a remote format utilizing the seven C’s with the hope that it will lead to students having a more meaningful remote learning
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