Saturday, November 24, 2012
Competencies for online instructors
Going through the self evaluations and competencies for online instructors was helpful in identifying my strengths and weaknesses. My biggest weakness is advanced planning, which according to these assessments is very important. Hand in hand with that is my other weakness, attention to detail. In the regular classroom, things always go fine because I do plan and see to the details but sometime I wait until the last minute. I guess that is not a good thing for online classes. Knowing this will help me, should I ever teach an online class, because I will be sure to plan and stress about the details long before I would in a regular classroom. The advantage of planning in an online classroom that I can see from taking this class (which this is the only online class I have ever taken so correct me if I am wrong) is that you can set up the class (plan) and use the same set up the next time you take the class. I find the regular classes that I have used moodle for are easier to plan for because I just look back and can see exactly what I did last time. I think online teaching would be similar.
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Natalie - those are my weaknesses too! However, they've become better this year with all our work with the curriculum companion changes to match our coursework with Wisconsin's new smarter balanced assessment. I'm curious as to the context of the question we were asked about time. If I were teaching an online course in addition to our day-to-day teaching at MHS, I definitely could only do about 1-2 additional hours a day. However, if I were teaching an online class as my only teaching gig, I would be expecting to put in my normal 8-14 hour days!?! Don't you agree? Also, maybe our attention detail would be better if we didn't have the multiple other duties or distractions? Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree about the time element. I really don't think this online teaching could be done well on top of a full-time teaching career. It is hard enough have the time (and sanity) to accomplish all the responsibilities in the classroom let alone adding something like managing an online class on top of that. I have already decided that if I am going to online teach I will NOT be able to teach face-to-face also (considering what I already do above and beyond the classroom).
I was wondering the same about the time question and whether or not we would be expected to do those longer hours if we are teaching during the regular school day. When you have the summer to plan out your lessons for the semester at least, it can aid in the feeling of being less overwhelmed. I think Natalie that you can take your base of the lessons planned but you would than have the opportunity to change what did not work.
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