I learned teaching can be the same as face to face. I will aspire to inspire students by listening to the student. I will also have them do a biography of themselves to know each other. This kind of comaride will help engage the students in a social and educational evironment.
I have learned about ways to show my authority to my students in a professional way that assures them and their parents that I am qualified and capable of teaching.
One of the challenges of distance is establishing relationships with my students without the usual face-to-face interactions. It is also important to project my presence and authority, which presents another challenge with distance learning.
I learned that posting an instructor bio with years of practice and certification builds credibility.
Students have a right to know our credentials as teachers. There are many ways to share this with them, especially with today's technology. Another key thing is to get to know your students and their needs. I use the first day solely to introduce myself and to talk about the class. The children have 2 weeks to request a class change through their counselors, so we try to weed out the ones who really don't want to be there, since we are an elective. Day 2 is all about getting the kids up in front of their classmates to introduce themselves and tell us one thing they like best about theirself or something unique about them. We won't be able to have them stand up, but they will still be required to respond within the live virtual session.
I found the suggestions for establishing a relationship with students I may not meet in person to be very useful. I copiedf and pasted those suggestions for my own use when starting
It is very important to build relationships with your students - in the traditional classroom and the online classroom. Learning about your students is a great way to start the class. I would also share information about myself so they can get to know me as well.
Building relationships is important, even in an online classroom. It is important for the instructor to get to know the students as well as have the students get to know each other. This will a little different with not being in a classroom, but there are some good ideas and strategies presented here.
Ensuring that we identify ways to personalize each student will help ensure that we are making them feel like a person and not just a response on a computer screen, which will hopefully encourage better participation and more successful learning.
Like face-to-face teaching, relationships play a vital roll. Students need to know their instructor in order to build relationships and a positive classroom climate.
I agree that posting a bio and asking students to do the same is an excellent way to establish authority and to lay the groundwork for getting to know your students. I plan to use this method whenever I begin teaching a new group of students.
I learned the importance of creating positive relationships with students on the online platform.
I have learned there are many ways to project your presence and authority using an online forum with students. It is also equally important to get to know the students and their biographies so you can relate to them and establish trust in the classroom with each student.
thw same rules apply the in class room experience as it dones in the online experience. Projecting your presence gives students the information they need to trust the professor is an expert in the field they are teaching.
I learned that our presence online is not that different from the classroom. We need to establish relationships, boundaries, and guidlines to maintain and effective culture for learning. We should set the example and the students should follow.
It is important to be able to assert your authority but also be relational.
Instructors do not have to dominate the discussion in order to make our presence felt.
Even in a virtual environment, presence and relationship with each student is critical. Being online requires a bit more creativity as we lack the direct person-to-person time that we have in a traditional classroom. Students want to know who we are and it is meaningful and leads to engagement if we can also learn about them and express interest in them as individuals. I am pleased to see that many of the approaches recommended in this module are techniques that I have used in traditional classroom settings and will continue in the online format.
I learned that if everyone posts a Biography about themselves, it helps everyone understand were everyone stands in the class.
Reply to Gloria Evans's post: I love the idea of having the students have an expectation of their teacher.
