Cortney Silva

Using a rubric to assess students ensures consistency and transparency, creating a fair and clear evaluation process throughout the course.

Effective communication varies across age groups, so it's important to adapt your approach while ensuring respect and clarity. If a student struggles to express their needs, engage in a conversation to identify barriers and create a better communication strategy together. Always prioritize thoughtful, respectful messaging to maintain a positive learning environment.

Effective communication is the cornerstone of a productive and engaging learning environment, especially in an instructional setting. As an educator, it’s crucial to establish a clear, concise, and well-defined communication code of conduct that sets the tone for respectful interactions, promotes collaboration, and fosters a positive atmosphere for learning.

This section offers valuable insights and practical resources to guide you in crafting a communication framework tailored to your course. By implementing these strategies, you can ensure that expectations are transparent, misunderstandings are minimized, and students feel encouraged to actively participate and engage with the material and their peers. Whether you’re… >>>

In the course, I have found that social media can be an effective tool for interacting with students. Although texting may feel too personal for some forms of communication, it can be highly useful for sending reminders about deadlines and projects. The most important thing to consider is ensuring that all students have access to the communication platform. 

Communication and discipline are important

Participation and engagement are most important

Sharing my credentials, experience, and education is effective in projecting my presence to my class. sending personalized individual messages at the end of week one I found to be the most effective advice provided. 

It is interesting to learn the structure of an online class is most important

Bringing enthusiasm into the classroom can be very motivating and positive  

I learned skills to reach the students who have a harder time participating