Corona virus, something that is totally out of our control, forced educators to teach their students from home. Both, teachers and administrators, are searching for new tools to face the challenges they haven't faced before.
Teachers aren't seeing the faces of boredom in their students while teaching online, but maybe some one left the microphone opened and commented on teachers style, or maybe students are playing their games while taking the online class that the teacher is carefully prepared it. Some of the challenges that the teacher might encounter while teaching online are:
- Motivated students: It is not an easy task to keep students engaged and motivated in online class. Teacher should be creative and implement elements of video games and let them enjoy their learning experience.
- Keeping track of their progress: Create open conversation with each individual participant in class, and talk to them about their feelings, academic progress, and their goals. Create a relationship with them, know who they are and what they are expecting from you.
- Students interacting with each others: The only way in which teamwork ability will be developed and strengthened is to have students interact with each others and work together.
I think that keeping track of student's progress is the hardest while teaching online. We can't know if the student benefited from the material and grasped the information or not, and also most parents solve the homework for their children, which makes it harder for us as teachers to give them the right feedback that allows them to clear-up misunderstandings.
ReplyDelete"Keeping track of their progress" I think this is a good way that you have highlighted to use in order to facilitate the teaching/learning process. This idea will help teachers to motivate and engage students to the learning process and the teachers will be more close to their students.
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