I did not know about the components of response sequence or ARCS based communication.
From the first meeting or class start, setting the correct tone for effective communication is essential for student success, student retention, and student learning outcome.
I really like the examples of positive language and the ARCS email model. While this will be my first school year starting as an online teacher, I feel like the ARCS model should be taught to all pre-service teachers. While often public school teachers don't teach online courses, this model would be helpful for addressing parents' and students' questions over email. I use the ARCS model generally, but it took me some time to learn how to write an effective parent communication. Knowing this right off the bat would be very helpful for new teachers.
The acronym ARCS stands for “attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction
Reply to kevin carrier's post:yes, this lesson definitely explains how we have to encourage the students and let them know that their feelins are valid
Communcation with a student online has to be engaging while influencing positivity as well as being supportive of their academic needs.
Gloria, it is important for communication be interactive and not qone way.It is important to set the correct tone for effective communication at the beginning of the course while reflecting generational and personality differences. It should be inviting and with senserity
Being able to communicate effectively is key, reinforcing positive atitude, positive feedback, encouraging words all contrtibute to the success of the student
This module provided awesome material on the strategies for online communication (e.g.,providing personalized communication with online students can be achieved by implementing serveral proven strategies; such as: congratulations & welsome calls, using names in all correspondence, virtual meetings, media-enriched communications, orientation sychronouse chat, and ongoing reminders). This module also highlighted on interactive messages & cohesive statements. As well as, responsive sequence and ARCS-based emails.
Effect communication must be two way, I found the Zoom is the best tool for online communication. I can tell my students more comfortable than communication in person. Not just that I can greet the student by name but also can reach their emotion and response quickly. I set up the zoom for my office hours both before and after the class meeting.
Keeping communication on a positive note. Helps build rapport and trust.
Communication and being human. To keep good direction in class yet to know everyone has their own situation.
Communication is key whether online or in person. Learning how to communicate effectively via email, chats sessions, IM, or other formats is important for the students as well as for the instructor. I have learned a bit about the different methods (and word smithing) to use when communicating with students. As I have stated to students who come out of my program and go on an interview to obtain a job-"You never get a second chance at making a first impression" -so bring your A game to the meeting. This is also true when meeting students online or inperson for the first time. I believe it is also important to address students as their name appears on the school records and allow students to correct you if they prefer to be called something else. (ex. a student's first name is Jackson but they state they would like to be called Jack hence it would be noted).
I learned that i can personalize my written communication by using emoticons to express feelings, bracketing my thoughts to infer a shared personalized feeling, and self-disclosure to heighten a personal connection in my e-mail communications.
Online teaching demands specific communication skills.
These skills have named categories (affective, tentative, cohesive, and more) which when used in appropriate sequence (attention, relevance, confidence...), overcome the limitations of online communication.
Seth Soronnadi
Iearned that to improve confidence and good result "The ARCS-based email template can be used to help staff construct more effective emails. Such an email would need to contain statements designed to gain students’ attention, demonstrate relevance, and enhance confidence and satisfaction."
Reinforce collaborative relationship tone is improtant to keep a goo line of communication open with a online student.
I learned the importance of validating students emotions in emails.
I learned that it is important to Use positve and affctive statements and words in a positve manner.
In order to communicate effectively in an online environnment we as instructors need to be mindful of word choice, emotions, thoughts and concerns of the students.
