Thoughts on Teaching
One of the significant challenges we face is removing the isolation that online students often face and promoting interconnectivity between the teacher students. So how do we encourage this type of interconnectivity amongst a diverse population set? Part of the answer is encouraging both diversity and commonality
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In my management courses during my graduate program one of the main foci was on teamwork. Questions regarding what constituted a great team abounded. At that time I had limited experience in the professional world so I would hearken back to my time in school. One experience always came to mind - my experience of being a part of the team that put on a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet during my 8th grade year. Typical of many intermediate schools my school was full of…
OfflineHow can you engage your students and make a difference in their lives? In this blog you will learn how to create a learning experience that connects, inspires, and engages your student's in a way that will energizes them to want to learn and to actively participate in your classroom.
Engage Your Students!! Make a Difference!!
I recently saw the phrase engage your world and make a difference at a church that I attended. I began to reflect upon what is my world and how do I make a difference in it? I teach online courses and my world at the moment is my online students that I teach. The next logical question was how do I make a difference in their lives? This is the first of six blogs explaining how to engage students and how to create a learning…
OfflineStories can be powerful tools in our teaching practice if we take the time to weave them into the content of our classes.
"Statistics are faceless, what happens to you is personal..." Mr. Shelton's voice was tense but hopeful. Stepping back away from the board, he leaned down over the front table looking at each of us. He continued to explain that we as Juniors had to decide whether we were going to be a statistic, and like most students at Coronado High School forgo college-or-were we going to do something different.
Mr. Shelton seemed to have a way of connecting high school Physics to life lessons in a very…
Increasing Communication Within the Online Classroom: The Discussion Forum
This is part one of a series on ways to increase communication within the online classroom. We start the series by looking at the heart of any online course: the discussion forum.
The discussion forum is the heart of the online classroom. It is where the students spend most of their time and where the majority of teaching takes place. An argument can be made that as goes the discussion forum so goes the course. So how can we, as instructors, help create an active, vibrant, interactive discussion forum where students are actually discussing the course material rather than just answering the discussion questions? Below are five tips I have learned over the course of my…
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