Practical Strategies for Teaching Online
Practical Strategies for Teaching Online will provide you with essential hands-on tools and evidence-based strategies to equip you to deliver an effective distance or hybrid learning environment for your students. You will learn how to develop positive teacher-student relationships, build credibility with your students and parents, prepare assessments, and meet your learning targets. Additional topics include instructional approaches through synchronous and asynchronous learning, discussion of equity challenges related to distance learning, reducing busywork, prioritizing curriculum that engages students, and much more!
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Course Name: Practical Strategies for Teaching Online |
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Course Number: EDUC 718V |
Semester Credits: 3 |
Course Description
Distance learning, virtual education, Zoom classrooms, or hybrid instruction are all terms we hear on a daily basis. While this type of teaching might have started as crisis teaching and not distance learning, you are still an influential teacher. You can make a difference in your students’ lives, no matter the location of the learning environment.
However, this change brings the added challenges of ensuring you are reaching all students, including the traditionally compromised students, such as English learners and students living in poverty. You will need to leverage your tried-and-true teaching skills and adopt technology to provide targeted support for all students. You must keep on target with your school’s learning targets and standards. How will you accomplish these seemingly daunting tasks and maintain your positive mindset?
In this course, you will receive essential hands-on tools and evidence-based strategies to equip you to deliver an effective distance learning environment for your students. You will be able to lead your students through a successfully executed school year, regardless of the grade level you teach. You will also develop positive teacher-student relationships, build credibility with your students and parents, prepare assessments, and meet your learning targets. Additional topics include a wide variety of instructional approaches through synchronous and asynchronous learning, discussion of equity challenges related to distance learning, how to reduce busywork, prioritize curriculum that engages students, and much more.
Through this course, you will develop skills to keep a positive mindset, manage your workload and workspace while teaching from home, and cultivate a class community that allows students to engage and thrive.
Goals
- Develop learning intentions for students
- Create a classroom management plan for distance learning
- Identify expectations for synchronous and asynchronous distance learning
- Prepare your distance learning environment
- Build teacher-student relationships and peer-to-peer relationships
- Define and establish teacher credibility
- Create a flow of lessons specifically designed for distance learning
- Identify success criteria
- Create conditions for engagement and supported learning
- Coach and facilitate learning in a distance learning environment
- Understand the socioemotional links to feedback
- Leverage your understanding of crisis teaching to make your school better
Course Contents
- Mindset matters- focus on what you can control
- Embrace the opportunity to rethink distance learning
- Establish rules and routines for a distance learning environment
- Building class community
- Basic components of a digital learning plan
- Seven C’s of effective classroom management
- The first days of distance learning school
- Teacher-student relationships from a distance
- Taking care of yourself
- Teacher credibility at a distance
- Creating engaging tasks
- Planning instructional units for distance learning
- Feedback, assessments, and grading
- Making learning better for students and teachers
Evidence of Learning Outcomes
Upon completing Practical Strategies for Teaching Online, the student will thoroughly understand how to successfully teach in a distance learning environment.
How to Register
Registration is simple and can be done online or over the phone. Courses are offered ongoing during three semesters, and enrollees may begin at any time. Students may choose to enroll in up to a maximum of 15-semester credits at any time during a semester.
Fall: September 1 - January 31
Spring: February 1 - May 31
Summer: June 1 - August 31