How To Teach Online: The New Normal For Students

Online teaching is the new normal wear teachers and students are constantly coming up with new ideas to make the experience better. We all have grown up in the digital era, accustomed to the features, having at least a basic idea of how a virtual platform works. This might seem enough for most people to continue their education online. However, as an educator, it is your responsibility to give them the best-supported environment. How can you do that? this blog will help you to know your students better, understand their needs and implement your ideas to make them learn better.

Discover practical ways of online teaching

If you are an educator who has been trying to establish yourself online for quite some time now, this is the right place! The first thing to learn about supporting your students in understanding them. The most practical way of conducting classes is holding live classes and sessions so that you have a face-to-face engagement with everyone. You not only understand them better but also convey information as you normally do in an offline setting. You can't have the same level of interaction because, with a screen, it is difficult to look around at all the students at one time.

It can become challenging initially, but with regular conduction of live classes, things start to get easier. You can try to make your classes more practical by moving around or giving them a field trip where you are the person who is going on-site while keeping the video on for your students to see. Try giving them a break-even while taking online classes, this will make them not miss out on the in-between class breaks. They might even play some games or have events once in a while to have a change of mood from assignments and presentations. The main motive is keeping the spirits of your students, if they feel isolated, they will not find this subject interesting and it will be the end of possibilities. You have to allow them to come forward, make an effort, and this is only possible through innovative ideas of engagement in class. 

Creation of lesson plans

Here is a checklist you need to keep coming back to before beginning a new session; 

• A reliable LMS portal where you can upload learning material
• Organize an education app with reliable features such as availability for 24-hour engagement between students and teachers
• Lesson plan for each subject in a chronological order
• Weekly and monthly progress reports
• Assignment submission sheet that can be edited over the next few weeks 
• Expected examination timings
• Practice questions, sample papers, and mock tests schedule
• Grading format that is available to students
• Arrangement for recording all the live classes so that they can be uploaded offline
• Rules and regulations

It has become very easy to come up with lesson plans with the help of an education app that already has all these features present. All you have to do is transfer the data available to you offline in the online portal so that you can easily and quickly share the details with students and their guardians or parents at any given point in time. Moreover, instead of individually informing the students about rules and regulations, you can simply give them a link where they can read all about it. For the information that is not present in an LMS portal, they can get in touch with you through chat rooms. A well-prepared educator is can lead successful online teaching classes just as they were offline. 

What will you help your students to achieve?

Students, on the receiving end, have an entirely different perspective on online teaching. Just as providing good quality education is important to you, for them, it is to adapt to online teaching methods. You can make this process is easy, by helping them achieve;

• Benefits of a reliable education app due to availability of extra guidance and detailed features
• Getting to know the different techniques that can help them in online teaching
• Getting accustomed to virtual platforms through constant engagement
• Have different approaches towards virtual means of education
• Use the online education platform as an advantage, by making the best out of its flexibility and cost-friendly natures

It is not just the students who learn, it is an educator who learns first and does their best to apply this knowledge for creating better futures for their students.