Preparing Your Students for the ACT (2022-2023 Edition)
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Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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Aug 18, 2020 11:55:27 AM
When your classes move online, it's a big change—both for your students and for you. However, this change doesn't have to be negative. While there can be challenges to teaching online, the experience can still be helpful and fulfilling on both sides of the screen. Whether you're teaching in a virtual environment for the first time or looking to improve your current virtual classroom, there are ways of mixing up the experience to make sure that your students stay engaged. Here are a few of Magoosh's top tips!
Think about what it feels like when you're stuck in a long virtual meeting. What's most exhausting about it? Usually, people report feeling tired when they have to listen to a single speaker discuss the same topic at length. While this can work in a classroom, particularly with older students, the virtual environment requires more interaction and stimulation to keep students engaged. Here are a few ways to make the most of the online experience:
It's important that the class doesn't start to feel like a TV show in which you talk at them for the full session. To keep things engaging, work on incorporating the following into your virtual classroom:
Keep looking for opportunities to engage students in the material. The more they see the virtual learning experience as a dialogue, the better their brains will absorb the material. To do this:
One issue many adults encounter in video conference calls is not knowing where a particular conversation is going. This can be frustrating and ultimately lead participants to tune out. Here are a few suggestions to avoid this in your virtual classroom:
Whether you choose to incorporate a few or all of these tips into your lessons, you can see that teaching virtually requires a different kind of prep than teaching in-person does. While in an in-person class, you'd be able to improvise based on students' reactions, this becomes a little more challenging online, making it all the more important to provide students with extra time, patience, and explanations. As you do so, you'll start to notice all the benefits of online learning—and there are many. Good luck!
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