{"id":261,"date":"2021-04-26T19:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/?p=261"},"modified":"2023-01-03T20:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:29:36","slug":"4-tips-for-managing-the-transition-to-teaching-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/4-tips-for-managing-the-transition-to-teaching-online\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Tips for Managing the Transition to Teaching Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Furman M.A.Ed. student Daniel Hoilett shares some tips for teachers and discusses how he managed his transition from teaching classes in-person to teaching online during the 2020-21 Covid-19 Quarantine and how it resulted in a more engaged classroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Managing the Transition to Teaching Online\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CH40wgU0CU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 Relationships are at the heart of teaching so make sure your kids &#8220;Feel The Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My biggest thing going into this school year was, I definitely knew it was going to be different. I was accepting that from the get-go, but I wanted to really make sure that my kids still felt the love first and that I was being intentional about it.\u00a0 \u00a0I think that&#8217;s the heart of our teaching, the relationships, because if kids don&#8217;t think you care about them and they don&#8217;t know that you care about them, they&#8217;re not gonna listen. They&#8217;re already not going to want to engage with you, so I think that&#8217;s the first step.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#2 Sometime less is more, so set realistic goals and expectations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From there, I really just went with the whole &#8220;less is more&#8221; mentality. I&#8217;ve been adding one piece at a time and that really has worked for us. I think it was, after the middle of the second week, we really started to hit a good little stride. I don&#8217;t get a whole lot of emails and I don&#8217;t get a whole lot of tech issues anymore. I think we really put a lot of time in on the front end so that they know where they&#8217;re going, they know what they&#8217;re doing, and that honestly has just been so good, so. &#8220;Less is more&#8221; is my take.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#3 Focus on what is most important and let your kids set the pace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every single thing that I would be doing when I was in the classroom, do we hit every single thing anymore? Every day? No. We as teachers have to say, &#8220;Okay, what is going to be actually most important during this year?&#8221; because it&#8217;s not going to be everything and that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s honestly a different way of\u00a0 approaching school. That&#8217;s been the coolest part about it. You&#8217;re able to take a lot more time, slowing down and really focusing on what&#8217;s important.\u00a0 You just have to let your kids lead, and that for me has been a huge help. My kids are still learning, we&#8217;re still working on our addition subtraction, we&#8217;re still going through all the things but it is very focused on what&#8217;s most important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#4 Teaching online may not be the same as in-person, but it can be just as effective with intentionality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My biggest thing, I just keep talking with people about has been that this can still be a meaningful time for these kids. This can still be something where they are excited about learning, they can still feel that love from you, it just takes a whole lot more intention behind it.<\/p>\n<p>So far, this has been one of my most connected classes and it&#8217;s been ironic because we&#8217;re very far apart from each other. I&#8217;m already hearing from parents that they were shocked at how much their student is engaged, this year. They were saying they weren&#8217;t expecting it.<\/p>\n<p>If I gave any piece of advice it&#8217;s that it&#8217;s not gonna look the same, but it can look like something really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman M.A.Ed. student Daniel Hoilett shares some tips for teachers and discusses how he managed his transition from teaching classes in-person to teaching online during the 2020-21 Covid-19 Quarantine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-education-insight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}