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Engaging Students in Online Learning
Online and Blended Learning, Curriculum Strategies, Assessment Strategies | Pre-K-12
Engaging students in online learning is tough. Whether your class is fully online or you’re using an online element to support in-person instruction, you have to decide: What’s the best way to communicate with students? How do you reach reluctant learners through a screen? How do you make learning fun when everyone’s potentially on a different device?
In this course, you’ll explore several strategies for promoting student engagement online. You’ll learn how to use both synchronous and asynchronous learning techniques to build relationships with students and create a strong classroom culture. You’ll also investigate what scaffolding looks like using online learning tools, including how to use pre-assessments to gauge readiness levels and direct future instruction. Finally, you’ll learn how to create and use videos in your class, as well as how to conduct online activities such as discussion boards, reflection logs, project-based learning, e-portfolios, and more.
Whether you teach online, in person, or a combination of both, you’ll be able to use the tools from this course to plan fun and interesting online instruction that meets a variety of learning needs.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Using pre-assessment to determine student readiness and plan for instruction
- Using Bloom's taxonomy to create learning outcomes that are relevant to students and will assist the teacher and the learning with focusing on the goals
- Determining learner preferences and interests to assist in planning for instruction so as to maximize student engagement in the online classroom
- Learning ways to tap into community resources to further enhance the learning connections outside the school community and into the larger community
- Identifying learning strategies that will further extend and enhance the student experience in the digital classroom with strategies such as project-based learning
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Determine the necessary steps to put in place to create an engaging culture for learning in an online classroom where all students feel respected and safe.
- Develop lesson plans that are differentiated, intentional, and able to meet the needs of all learners.
- Incorporate teaching tools, strategies, and activities into lessons so that students get engaged, stay engaged, and are eager to participate in the online classroom.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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