One odd property of remote teaching is that you can use notes a lot more; you can have a pile of papers on your desk with your lesson plans written out -- and you can refer to them without your students really noticing anything odd. So you can make lesson plans by piecing together piles of things that you have lying around and still have a coherent and useful lesson.
Then there are things you can do face-to-face that are really difficult remotely which you just have to avoid.
These include:
- students doing anything long on their own
- teaching interactive programs
These are related problems.
If students are going to do an exercise on their own, it needs to be small enough that it's possible for them to post the whole thing that they've done into the chat channel.
So it's nearly impossible to teach how to use an interactive program that has a lot of hidden screens. (e.g. teaching Qlik remotely is hard; Tableau tends to be easier because you can post a screenshot).
(If you want to teach those things, it's better to create a simulation for it e.g the kind of thing that e-learning authoring tools like Articulate does.)
So put together, you end up with short-ish theory session followed by a 30 second exercise, followed by another short-ish theory session, and so on until the end of the time.
If there is substantive work to be done (e.g. some mathematics practice work), that needs to be students submitting something into a LMS (learning management system), not something you do in a classroom. That kind of thing works for me because I've only got adult learners; I don't know how it would work for younger students.
Of course you follow all the guidelines from whoever is sponsoring the course, which often entails wrapping everything in a pre-defined sandwich of "this is what we did last lesson; this is what you will learn; this is what you just learned; this is what we will cover next lesson" -- if that's the kind of thing the sponsor wants to see.