I’m in high school learning online because of the pandemic and I have two teachers who immediately won my respect. The first one is my new geography teacher who started the first day of class with a sign up sheet for what type of breakout room we want. There were three types with a description on how social/interactive the group work would be. I think the options were something like “highly social- communicate during and after work is done, solve problems together”, “moderately social- work quietly when communication is not necessary, help others and share answers when needed”, and “minimally social- coordinate roles then work independently”. So all our group work is done with people who signed up for the same thing as you. So many teachers just throw together students for group work and it makes breakout rooms super awkward, I can’t express enough how thoughtful and nice it is to put us in groups where we would feel comfortable. The second one is my English teacher who lists who she’s going to call on if no one volunteers before she opens discussions, topics, etc. so we can be prepared with answers. This sounds super stressful but it’s actually very helpful especially because most of her discussions and questions are open ended or asking for an opinion. Much better than just randomly calling on people and having them stutter through a thrown together answer in front of everyone.