Prioritizing teaching and life is basically developing a work-life balance. To do this, managing your time is essential. To manage your time, you need to be "organized, disciplined, distinguish between work and personal life, and yet be flexible."
Management of time is important. I need to work on this one myself!
Organization, organization, organization. As I anticipate my school district will at least start the year virtually, the more I can work on tranforming my F2F classes to online this summer, the better prepared I will be to actually implement this--and help our new teachers--when we do beging teaching online or hybrid. I liked the idea of a pre-test for technology skills and I am thinking of incorportaing that into the first recommended Biography assignment (a fun way to start relationship building in the class might be a quizzizz using the informatin shared in the bios, including mine). I plan to use Gagne's outline to build most modules, and pretty much the format these modules have been in-- information, thinking break, snall quiz to move on, then larger quiz, in addition to group projects and a wiki for each class.
It is wise to develop a work-life balance. Keep distractions out. Organize your workload. And be disciplined in your Organization.
Online teaching is a learning environment for the instructor as well as the students.
Building a class throug the entire process--plan, design, organization, implementation, etc. are all part of the online course roadmap to a successful class just as in a face to face environment. The last unit on priorities is the key to maintaining sanity, both in time management for the course and for personal life. It is totally necessary to block out specific times on a calendar for all the course events so that students and instructors alike know where they are going. The instructor must also block out times for personal life. When all is said and done though, it is all pretty useless unless you stick to the plan. It will not take the students long to figure whether they are dealing with a 24/7 instructor or not.
The teacher should model behaviors that are expected of students. Time management should not only be planned but also followed. Work-life balance is needed. Teachers need to set boundaries for the online hours.
Organization also takes the form of scheduling specific time for virtual office hours. Experienced online instructors find this practice to be a timesaver for answering questions and meeting learner concerns. Online instructors also utilize the strategy for anticipating and setting aside time for periods when there will be either heavy grading or heavy discussion periods.
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I like that "Using these strategies can help prevent teaching burnout. It will also help instructors develop an appropriate online management system to give them balance every time they teach online."
There will be challenges. Recognize those challenges (with the biggest being lack of face2face contact with students) and identify specific strategies to overcome the challenges. There are a number of online delivery models. Two given were ADDIE and Gagnes which give the events of instructions. In other words, how will instruction flow, start to finish with each lesson. These model of delivery help with developing a good course, maximizes learning impact and minimizes the workload. as with all teachers, careful not to burnout. Pace yourself, draw the line between personal and work.
I think managing a work/personal life balance could be challenging if working from home exclusively. Setting a schedule and publishing office hours may be helpful.
It has become aparent that the management of time can not possibly be overstated.
Some examples of the characteristics of a good online educator are visability/social presence, have good organizational skills, have the skills to collect and analyze student data, and have the ability to lead by example.
Organize,then organize some more one sure way to support success for instructor and student is to do just that....organize.
Using administrator function means smooth course operations adn reduces instructor adn learner overload
Time management and wokload management are very important to being an effective online teacher.
One of the things I've been concerned about is how to design an online course that's still engaging and helps my students become good problems solvers. My subject is science, and I really rely on hands-on learning. I have colleagues who, when asked to move to an online classroom, simply use the textbook online system where their students read the textbook, watch videos, and take m/c tests. So with this in mind, there was a section on LMS where they stated that properly used lectures, video, guest speakers, discussions, group projects and individual reactions helped inspire students to think outside the box, etc. It occured to me that this would make a pretty good template for repeated use in an online course, as all of these things can be translated online using technology.
Managing your time is essential. Work~Life
Planning to have a schedule is an important time management tool. It is also important to convey this to students who may not have work in the online environment in the past. Also keep in mind that not all students have the technological skills to effectively navigate the online world.
Time management and planning are important
