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Transitioning to Online Teaching: Tips on being a Successful Teacher
Know yourself
As a teacher, you must know yourself, your assumptions, your learning and teaching preferences, and your strengths and weaknesses. By understanding your own perspectives and abilities, you’ll be able to better assist and contribute to the learning of others.Hanna, et. al., 2000
Tips for teaching
Be prepared and flexibleClarify your expectations of your studentsExpect your students to create, share, and hold knowledge through experiences
Tips for teaching
Understand the online environment – developing an online environment using technology isn’t easyRecognize the absence of physical presenceCreate multiple spaces for work, interaction, and socializingHanna, et. al., 2000
Design learning activities for building interpersonal relationships and for information exchange that requires feedbackDesign learning activities to promote analytic reflective thinkingDesign assignments in ways that can help students manage time and keep up with the course schedule, especially nontraditional students with family and job commitments
Tips for Teaching
Carefully plan the inclusion and placement of external resources to keep learners concentrated on the learning tasks and not overwhelm them with excessive amounts of additional informationMake assessment an integral part of the learning experience, and make it meaningful and valuable to the learners. Nontraditional students like to use case studies and field experiences with their own professional development, real life, practical application of learning
Tips for Teaching
Use communication for socializing, feedback, to encourage reflection and revision in learningAvoid discussion that have a clear correct answer to encourage diverse views and multiple perspectives.Using asynchronous communication technology provides distributed communication between shy and outgoing students, gives students control over speed and timing of responses
Tips for interaction
Expect that learning styles do change over time, with experience and with learning task.Expect that younger adults might learn best in ways that differ from the ways in which children and older adults learn most effectively.Expect that environment and experience may have an impact on how people prefer to learn and how efficiently they are able to learn.Coates, 2007
Learning Styles
Baby Boomers – 1946 – 1964Generation X - 1964- 1980Generation Y – 1980 – 2000 Millennials Generation Z – 2000 +
For Reference
They want to know what is expected of them up front – like structureThey want choices and optionsBe efficient – they do not like to “waste time” – be organizedBe relevant – it must serve their educational goalsWork to make the classroom come alive – make it funBe visual
Teaching the younger generation
Use technologyLike learning by doing and have practical outcomes, experiential learningNot always big readersProvide lots of feedbackPresent the big pictureAllow for creativity and offer multiple options for performance
Teaching the younger generation
Best practices in student engagementEncourage staff-student contactEncourage cooperation among studentsEncourage active learningGive prompt feedbackIncrease time on taskRespect diverse talents and ways of learning
Best practices in online assessment
Bring a new mindset to online assessment Publicize content, format, rules, and honor codes to students in advance Ask questions that require application of knowledgeOnly use memory-testing questions to facilitate student progress Use software with test administration features
Best practices in online assessment
Design alternate forms of the test, use question pools, randomize questions Learn the writing style of students before testing Use questions that require personal input from students Set a reasonable time limit for completion Security is critical, use of proctoring Don't worry too much
Learner centeredCollaborative, not competitiveRelevantTime appropriateOutcomes basedCustomizedInteractiveIncorporate technologyVisualClear expectations
Pedagogy for the 21st Century
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Sources:Coates, J., (2007) Generational learning styles. River Falls, WI: LERN Books.Hanna, D. E., et. al., (2000) 147 practical tips for teaching online groups: Essential of web-Based education. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing
