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Effective teaching is inherently dynamic. Each time we teach a course, present a lecture, or engage our students in a learning activity, we teach when we respond to student questions and feedback “in the moment.” Effective teachers use experience to modify a lesson from semester to semester. Great online courses are not simply copied from semester to semester without significant changes, or allowed to run on autopilot, but rather are taught dynamically and improved with each iteration.
Reflections
Reflections
Where I was.
Where I was.
I was a traditional teacher where I used lectures, assess the students through exams and provide the results. Now, I realize that all my interactions were one way only. Meaning I had not given opportunity to the students to collaborate and learn from each other.
Where I am.
Where I am.
The word “Math” triggers fear for many students. As a Math instructor, I feel it is my duty to remove the fear factor first before I teach them the concepts. I have increased the student's collaboration in class through discussion board assignments. When the students actively work with each other, they feel the belonging in the class which naturally help them increase their confidence and achieve more. I believe if the online class is engaging and dynamic, the retention and success rates will be lot higher.
Where I'm headed.
Where I'm headed.
I want to create a class where each student is eager to login at least twice a week and do their work and learn. To make the class interesting and entertaining, I am working on creating activities that uses padlet ,answer garden to present the students' work in an attractive way.
Examples
Examples
Student Interaction and Collaboration:
Student Interaction and Collaboration:
I mandate students to participate in class and collaborate with classmates through weekly discussion board assignments. Students post their doubts from each chapter here and classmates help each other by answering others questions. I will go over their post regularly and correct the mistakes. Also, I go over the unanswered questions in my weekly office hour which will be recorded and posted in the announcements on weekly basis.
Formative Assessments and Student Communication:
Formative Assessments and Student Communication:
I regularly give many formative assessments in the form of section practice and quizzes and provide feedback for my students before they take midterm and final exam. Besides the formative assessments, I give ungraded self-check assessments for them to practice without the fear of losing points. Also, I give surprise reality check assignments and survey to get students availability for office hour timings, etc. to increase their participation. I give points for all the assignments and this makes to students to take these surveys without ignoring it. Here is the example of students doing the grade check assignment before the class drop deadline!
Student developed course content:
Student developed course content:
I involved students to generate their own question banks which encourages self learning because they self created those contents. Students actively answer each others question and create an collaborative learning environment. It is very true that students take more responsibility to study and practice when they create the quiz questions by themselves.
Student Generated Question bank_Gayathri Manikandan.pdfGoogle Sites
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