Introduce yourself with a warm welcome. Communicate with your students and encourage them to do so with each other. Sharing your experience and academic credentials will enhance the interactive relationships you create with students and student relationships with each other.
I may need to better at engaging the students at a personal level and promote more of an interactive environment.
In this course, I learned the importance of getting to know my students and letting my students know about me. Even in an online learning environment, establishing relationships with each other is critical.
Trust is a two way street and was not develop over time. That's why, it is a must that being truthful about the educational objective is a must.
Put your personality in your posts. Let the students see your personality through your words.
Reply to Gina Marshall's post:Establishing bonds is so important and can really show your students you have an active intrest in their lives and educational journies.
In this information I learned that in order to establish yourself as a credible instructor you should provide to your students a brief biography that showcases your accomplishments, credentials, education, professional development and even some personal information such as hobbies or intrests. It's also wise to ask your students about themselves and read their biography. This is a great way to establish connections.
Hi Instructor's presence in the class needs to be the driving force. He presents content as a subject matter expert and as a teacher who can convert complex knowledge into bite size pieces
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Asking for a bio and picture is a great way to meet your students.
Reply to Lisa Brown's post: It is imperative and effective way for an instructor to learn about the students and for the students to learn about each other by posting a short biography about them to shared with the rest of the class.
Projecting and maintaining your presence from a distance is important
Relationship building with your students/participants is key. It is also necessary to project authority to establish trust with students, and so that they feel more confident about being supported. To establish authority and to help students feel supported, it is good to introduce yourself and mention your credentials. Afterwards, encourage them to introduce themselves by writing a short bio, and respond to the bio to connect with students.
I think having a discussion forum where everyone in the class shares a little about themselves as well as reasons and expectations for the course helps the instructor connect with the learners and further will help the class connect. This all makes the support system that much greater while comforting the students, letting them know they are not alone while taking the course. Great Topic!
It's important to start establishing a relationship with your students as soon as possible. By sharing information of each other, we begin to build a sense of trust which will make students comfortable to address concerns or needs.
One of the most important things is to let students know that you are there to support them throughout the course and that you are committed to their success.
So, we have started doing a WELCOME letter for each term and incorporated a short bio for each instructor to give the students an opportunity to learn about our credentials, achievements (and some failures that we overcame) and our expectations as the instructor to each students. On day one, we do a verbal intro by each students so I know more about them and each student learns a bit about their peers, but, I like the idea of having them write/type it out because it might prompt them to dig a little deeper. We used this format years ago at a different school, but, this prompted me to pull that back and I really like this idea. Another suggestion would be to add a "Dear FUTURE ME" letter that the students writes to them selves either day one of the entire program or revises at each term/semester with updates on their goals, expectations, accomplishments, and maybe career path changes. Then at graduation or course completion, have them read it so they can fully grasp and appreciate their academic and personal growth.
I find student's stories and backgrounds interesting and so I naturally gravitate to wanting to hear about their lives. I try to ask about specifics in later discussions so each student knows that I read their bio and that I'm invested in their success in the class.
I learned that you do not have to throw out the baby with the bathwater or reinvent the wheel. I learned that we are able to incorporate strategies that we imploy in the classroom to the online environment.
Establishing a good rapport with students is important. Communication is key. I like the idea of students posting bios.
I have always done an introduction for the students, I never thought of writing out a short auntobiography for them. I will try this. I also feel having students write one will help me with my teaching. I will better understand the students and where they are coming from.
