One Year In: Lessons Learned from Virtual Teaching

The Quito Project provides summer tutoring programs in math, reading comprehension, English, and leadership to primary school students in Quito, Ecuador. TQP's education component is a student initiative from the University of Michigan and Universidad de San Francisco de Quito that works to minimize the achievement gap in low-income zones by working with local communities and promoting global collaborations through education. Due to the ongoing pandemic, this year’s TQP winter workshop series has been rethemed to create a collaborative panel and conversation space for student educators to discuss lessons learned from a year of teaching virtually.

The panel features speakers from PALMA, En Nuestra Lengua, and the School of Education. Conversation will focus on resources/strategies for engaging students in a virtual format, addressing access disparities, and what things teachers hope to bring over from online teaching as they transition back into in-person learning.

This workshop is open to educators in all disciplines, especially those who are still university students themselves. We will offer a space for students to hear from their peers and share their own experiences from a challenging year.