I learned that it is important to let your students know about the teacher's credentials and achievements, as well as learning about each individual student in order to build a relationship.
I like the idea of having an asynchronous discussion board area for non-course related discussion. Also- I usually post my biography in the Icebreaker discussion, but many may not read it there. I should send it with my open course announcement.
When your students know you are there to support them, they will be more successful. Get to know them on a more personal level, not just academic. Recently, I have reached out to students' who are not as engaged as others, offering support and help individually.
Reply to Pamela Gabbay's post: I completly agree with you.
Telling the students a little about yourself is important
Posting your biography is a great idea. This gives students general information about you. It may make the students feel more relaxed to open up to you if they have any issues with the online class.
A great technique to get students involved right away is to have them create a short bio about themselves. This gives instructors the chance to identify specific needs, open up conversations, and create personalized messages to engage students.
Seeing students as a person in whole not just someone you need to "teach" also let them get to know you to feel comfortable and not just see you as someone with authority
I leared that you also can be present in an online environment, influence and inspire your students by being actively engaged in conversations and by sharing your biography and ask students to share their biography to get to know each other providing a sense of trust, understanding and respect.
I learned to make your students to feel your presence
This module instructs becoming closer to your students and sharing your background and personal information to bring each student closer to trusting you in their learning process...This does not apply to my working situation as this is called "undue familiarity" and is cause for termination. I did however find it useful when speaking of the importance of projecting your authority in order to build confidence and trust with your students in an online forum.
I've learned that you need to have good rapport with your students by sharing a short biography of yourself. Just as important is to review each student and get to know each of them so that they feel comfortable in asking questions that may come up. When it comes to communication I prefer synchronous when we are in a Webex meeting I can hear tone as well as see their body language to help me get my message across more clearly opposed to sending a email for them to read.
I learned that it's important to establish a rapport with the students from the beginning. Also, it's important for the students to get to know each other and to interact with each other. I also learned that during discussion boards it's important for the teacher to also list their perspective or answer to the questions and to admit to the students when I don't know the answer, but assure them that an answer will be found.
Share my credentials and a some personal stuff such as hobbies with the students.
I learned it is important to be respected by your students. It is also important to be able to relate to them on different levels.
The importance in projecting your athority, Give them information on yourself. Having students wrtie about themselves. Hopefuly gaining a trust and connection between the instructor and student
I plan to incorporate projecting my presence as subtly as possible. As the text suggests, having a presence, does not mean you have to dominate. As an instructor, I can do small things, like post scheduled reminders or email a student directly if I'm concerned about their lack of participation.
I learned the importance of establishing a approachable but authoritative online presence from the beginning of an online class.
I learned that it's important to get to know students and allow them to get to know you by exchanging biographies and also by reaching out to them one-on-one to acknowledge something about their biographies.
As a middle school teacher, online teaching at the beginning of next year will be a challenge I never had to face before. We build our relationships in the first week with fun, 'getting to know you' activites. I and my co-teachers will need to use the introductory slides shows we make and either post them, or use a platform like Screencastify to go thorugh it and introduce ourselves. I will definatly make sure to conntact each studnt individually at the end of the first day to give a personal greeting
