The Hybrid Teacher: Using Technology to Teach In Person and Online

by Emma Pass

A practical, educational technology resource for educators teaching remotely or in the classroom The most effective hybrid teachers are those that have a vast knowledge of instructional strategies, technologies, tools, and resources, and can masterfully build meaningful relationships with students in-person and through a screen. The Hybrid Using Technology to Teach In-Person and Online will teach educators to leverage the technology they have access to both in their traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms and in remote learning environments, including established online and hybrid schools; emergency response models for pandemics, natural disasters; rural education; and connecting with students who can't make it to school. Many of us had to adapt to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we still need resources for optimizing our instruction and becoming the best teachers we can be. This book is a practical guide for teachers who want to prepare for current and future remote instruction or leverage the best practices of remote instruction and EdTech tools to bring back to their brick-and-mortar classrooms. Inside, you'll learn about the impact of social and economic differences on classroom technology, and you'll find strategies and advice for maximizing success in each situation. Given the current push to remote teaching during the pandemic and the uncertainty over what the return to school and the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom will look like, The Hybrid Teacher will be an invaluable resource on the shelves of teachers and administrators alike.

Genres: Audiobook, Education

320 pages, Paperback

Published July 14, 2021

About the author

Emma Pass grew up at an environmental studies centre near London, went to art school in Cornwall and now lives in the north-east Midlands, UK. Her YA dystopian thriller ACID is out from Random House Children's Books on 25th April 2013 (UK), Mondadori on 13th June 2013 (Spain) and Delacorte on 1st April 2014 (US). Another standalone thriller, The Fearless, will follow in the UK in 2014.

Are you on Twitter? I'll be taking part in a #UKYA Twitter chat on Monday 14th April 2014 at 5.30pm (GMT) as part of Project UKYA's April Extravaganza. Come and ask me questions about my books and my writing! I look forward to chatting with you!

Reviews

[Gary Anderson]

In The Hybrid Teacher, Emma Pass provides a useful guide to remote learning. Pass emphasizes that remote learning can be either synchronous or asynchronous, and each mode has unique challenges and opportunities. Pass also shows how the best features of in-person learning can be adapted for online learning, and vice versa. Pass is a middle-school English teacher with a preference for Google tools, and she acknowledges that these are her lenses, but she also casts a much wider net with her suggestions for learning across the curriculum.

Those who have returned to school buildings may not want to think about remote learning for a while, and that's understandable, but the pandemic has shown some positive aspects of remote learning, even though they were revealed in an awful context. In addition, some students actually learn better online. With this in mind, it's likely that remote learning in some format will be with us from now on, and The Hybrid Teacher is a helpful resource for those situations.

Thanks to Libro.fm for early access to the audio version of The Hybrid Teacher.

[Daisey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received an Educator ALC of this audiobook from Libro.fm in 2021, but I just now took the time to listen to it as I prepare for another new school year. Much of it wasn't new information to me after my own teaching experiences through 2020-2022, and it does not try to solve technological difficulties. The author fully acknowledges that the book is based on her own personal teaching experiences and the privilege she has in the hybrid school in which she teaches. It is more a guide to resources and strategies for engaging and productive lessons when using online or hybrid instruction that is accessible to students. I agree with some other reviews I read that it has clear, broad information, but for many of us who have been teaching these last couple years it is not groundbreaking and some of it is likely to become outdated reasonably quickly. However, I did find it a worthwhile listen and took note of several new to me resources and ideas. These resources include the author's own website and blog which I feel will be worth following for current resources.

Audio Duration: 6 hours 28 minutes

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't find a lot of this super helpful, and while I acknowledge that it might just not be for me at my point in life/teaching/tech know-how, but I struggle to imagine who the best audience would be. The pedagogical sections felt best suited for new teachers, the latter half help geared toward administrators, and sections including how to things like use the control f shortcut and pin tabs felt intended for tech-averse teachers. Maybe the issue is that it covered so much without a lot of depth. Overall I do think there are nuggets for any teacher to appreciate, and I'll personally be considering the asynchronous learning section for my own teaching.

[April · Rating 2 out of 5]

For most of us who have had to teach digitally for the last year and a half, this doesn't add much new to the equation... And for those in the future, the information will be out of date. So even though there were some good pedagogical considerations in the first section of the book, I didn't find much worth taking away.