{"id":14315,"date":"2019-09-22T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T12:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=14315"},"modified":"2020-03-10T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:50:58","slug":"preparing-to-teach-during-an-interruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/preparing-to-teach-during-an-interruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing to Teach During an Interruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Threat of disasters is real\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catwiki.xula.edu\/images\/9\/91\/Example-of-an-Adaptation.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catwiki.xula.edu\/images\/9\/91\/Example-of-an-Adaptation.png?resize=624%2C468&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"image showing various disasters\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Course delivery is vulnerable to unplanned events. Potential interruptions to class activities include but are not limited to natural disasters, widespread illness, acts of violence, planned or unexpected construction-related closures, severe weather conditions, and medical emergencies. Whatever the event, an instructional continuity plan will help you to be ready to continue teaching with minimal interruption. <\/p>\n<p>For those who missed our \"<a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\/?id=01710\">Preparing to Teach During an Interruption: Strategies for Maintaining Instructional Continuity<\/a>\" workshop and for those who want to learn more about instructional continuity, you will find a link to the workshop recording, PowerPoint slides, and resources discussed in the workshop here: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bE9mlXT25sQ\">Preparing to Teach During an Interruption workshop  recording [46:10]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Disaster-Planning-Continuity-of-Instruction-03-2020.pdf\">Workshop Slides (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Instructional_Continuity_Tips_QuickStart_Guide.pdf\">Instructional Continuity Quick Start Guide (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It's not too late to consider developing an instructional continuity plan for your courses. Visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/Instructional_Continuity\">Instructional Continuity wiki<\/a> for resources to help you develop your plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"my plan\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/my-plan.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/my-plan.png?resize=342%2C223\" alt=\"office desktop with My Plan written on notepad\" width=\"342\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a plan? If so, we would like to hear about it. If you had a classroom disruption and found a way for students to continue to make progress in your course, we encourage you to share it with your colleagues. Please <a title=\"Send email to jflorent\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a> a brief description of what you did along with your reflections on how it worked for you, and we will post it to our <a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/Instructional_Continuity\">Instructional Continuity wiki<\/a> resource.<\/p>\n<p><small>Image credits:<br \/>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/File:Example-of-an-Adaptation.png\">The threat of disasters is real<\/a>\" by jflorent is licensed under <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<\/a><br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/my-plan.png\">My Plan<\/a>\" by jflorent is dedicated to public domain under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0<\/a> and is a derivative of <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/office-notes-notepad-entrepreneur-620817\/\">office<\/a> by FirmBee on <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/license\/\">Pixabay<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course delivery is vulnerable to unplanned events. Potential interruptions to class activities include but are not limited to natural disasters, widespread illness, acts of violence, planned or unexpected construction-related closures, severe weather conditions, and medical emergencies. Whatever the event, an instructional continuity plan will help you to be ready to continue teaching with minimal interruption. <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/preparing-to-teach-during-an-interruption\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Preparing to Teach During an Interruption\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403,8],"tags":[106,176],"class_list":{"0":"post-14315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"category-teaching","8":"tag-disaster-planning","9":"tag-instructional-continuity","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-3IT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12639,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-58-are-you-ready\/","url_meta":{"origin":14315,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #58: Are You Ready?","author":"Janice Florent","date":"September 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Tropical Storm Gordon should be a reminder that course delivery is vulnerable to unplanned events. 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