Koby Levin, Chalkbeat Detroit | Published online March 31, 2021 How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. In the early months of pandemic learning, Carmen Price was having trouble getting her preschool students to pay attention to virtual lessons. So she began experimenting. After some trial and error, she came across a few techniques that kept her students interested. PowerPoint, for instance, made it easy to include videos and photos in her lessons, which her students seemed to like. Her success made her wonder: Were other teachers thinking about the same things? Price consulted with the leaders of her preschool, Starfish Family Services, then invited other educators in her program to talk about their techniques for teaching young students online. “It just was awesome. The first meeting, I was surprised. All the teachers came. My heart was just so full because I … [Read more...]