Teaching Practices - Once you've viewed the presentations, think about your own personal teaching style. What technique do you use with your face-to-face students that will be particularly successful with online students? How might your practices need to change to meet the needs of online students? Write a refection of these practices and post to your blog. Read and comment to 2 of your class members postings.
As a classroom teacher, I am on top of time management. As on online teacher, I would transfer my time management skills over to the online course. Time management is very important to meet deadlines. In my classroom I am always working. During the teaching day, I do not believe in downtime. Every free minute I can get, I should be doing something such as grading papers, filing papers, making copies or planning. As an online teacher, I would set aside some time probably two to three times a day to cater to my online class. I would check emails, answer questions, review and/or grade assignments, and review discussion posts.
Another practice I would do is schedule an online discussion as least weekly. I think this is important because there is no face-to-face interaction. I would like to get to know my students as I would in a face-to-face class. Instead of a weekly journal I would use the discussion session. In the beginning, it would be more of a "getting to know you" discussion. Depending on the class content, we would discuss "what's going on today" as it pertains to the class content.
I also like the practice of emailing students that are falling behind or missing assignments. From a personal standpoint, sometimes I might miss an assignment unintentionally. I would really appreciate if my professor sent me a reminder. I would do this for my students as well.
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