Get Your Students Hired
As an online teacher it is necessary to assess you and your students for any weaknesses and to address those weaknesses. Have students understand the importance of time management to complete their work and to provide motivation to the students.
The student's readiness has multiple parts. The access and abilities with technology, their experience in learning systems, and their time management and self-motivation. While none of these can be taken for granted, the third aspect is one that I find students are often ill-prepared for. In the home, some have no model of ongoing self-education or continuing education from which to learn, nor do they have in-home coaches and support systems that underline the importance of and the practical necessities when it comes to keeping up with concrete let alone abstract commitments. Much needs to be done relative to time-management and motivation with students.
As an instructor, it is important to understand the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Knowing what motivates students will give me a valuable tool of understanding that will help me help my students. Knowing how students are motivated will allow me to use the correct resources and tools to help each student. I can essentially customize the help I give my students.
Making sure that each student has a desgniated space to learn in their home or a desgniated area to study.
I really like the idea of focusing on the learning style of the students and working with them to set calendars based on their strengths and what times of the day they may work the best.
Setting clear deadlines for projects will help online learners to stay motivated as well as giving them immediate, positive feedback.
I learned that the Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) can help you discover something about yourself as a teacher. The TGI is an easy-to-use, self-scoring, online tool to help you discover what you value about teaching and learning. Although it is primarily used by faculty members who are developing or revising instructional goals, it also is useful for anyone teaching college courses or developing a teaching portfolio.
Overnight, we all became online instructors while all of our students became online learners. It is important to take the information learned here and go back through our courses to verify that we have Universal Design. I feel like as educators we all know the information that was presented in this module, especially since we are living it currently during a pandemic. However, we need to actually go through the material and apply these fundamentals. Persistence is the key here. Persistence on the part of the instructor to refresh the material and persistence on the part of the student to work through the material given in the best possible environment. Persistence to keep up with the changing landscape of education and persistence of the student to let us know what type of learners they are.
It is essential to reinforce the importance of time management in online learning. I think this is the most difficult task for students to accomplish especially when juggling work/school/family life.
Students need to realize thast on-line classes require as much or more time as a traditional course to complete. Also they must learn to manage thier time effectively while taking an onlin class.
It is important to think about as many types of strategies for successful learning as possible when designing and implementing on-line learning. Tools and strategies that work for one student may not for another. I think the need for this is amplified in the on-line environment.
Interaction in post and discussion as it relates to the course are reflective to the student and help guide them through the course. Be concise with bites of information giving realistic timelines and set goals. This helps Online students succeed meeting course objectives.
Looking into a suvey for students so they can access their skills and readiness, most of our students are not college bound or ready, they are heading into a hands on career, this is a big leap for them, many are having trouble adjusting and many drop out due to the switch to blended learning.
Ive learned that student svurveys are very important, for making the student feel as part of the class but also to get feed back from the student as to how they are progressing.