Catch Up on Learning NOW in Barrington 220 One-Minute Spotlights

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Technology & Innovation has continued to produce our web series Learning NOW in Barrington 220 at www.youtube.com/learningnow220. Each episode highlights some of the ways Barrington 220 students are learning in one-minute stories about a particular lesson or activity. The series aims to create a better understanding in the Barrington community about how students learn and how the classroom environment has changed with the addition of a technology device in the hands of every student. 

If you have not seen them already, please take this opportunity to catch upon our One-Minute Spotlight videos that showcase distance, hybrid, and concurrent learning across the district:

Hybrid Learning: Barrington Middle School–Prairie - Ms. Giordano - Social Studies—BMS–Prairie teacher Katelynn Giordano uses station rotation to address the issue of divided attention while teaching in a concurrent classroom.

Hybrid Learning: Barrington High School - Mr. Kaiser - Woods—BHS Woods Teacher Jason Kaiser spent the beginning of the school year in distance learning while he taught his students about safety and planned projects. Later in the quarter, small groups of his advanced woods students visited the wood shop and used tools and materials to create projects.

Distance Learning: Countryside Elementary - Ms. Juengling—Countryside teacher Marie Juengling uses the Jamboard online interactive whiteboard and Zoom Breakout Rooms during distance learning to allow her students to think, debate, and develop ideas.

Distance Learning: Lines Elementary - Ms. Dowdy—Lines Grade 3 teacher Sarah Dowdy works with her class using Zoom video conferencing to teach a math lesson about parallel lines.

Concurrent Learning: Barrington High School - Mr. Pemberton - Choir—BHS Director of Choirs Brandon Pemberton conducts a choir rehearsal with some students live on the BHS outdoor stage and some students attending on Zoom in a concurrent classroom mode. 

Concurrent Learning: Barrington Middle School–Prairie - Ms. Canace & Ms. Aliperta—Students in Ms. Canace’s and Ms. Aliperta’s classes at BMS–Prairie learn in a concurrent classroom environment—where some students are in-person in a socially distanced classroom and some students are learning from home on Zoom.

Finally, if you or one of your peers would like to be featured on a future One-Minute Spotlight, please contact Ty Gorman at tgorman@barrington220.org and/or Matt Fuller at mfuller@barrington220.org.