Diverted Minds?? Learn how to keep them engaged in Online Classroom (Part-2)

I hope you enjoyed reading our previous blog & it helped you in keeping your students more engaged. Here are a few more tips to keep your children more engaged in the Online Virtual Classroom

1. Engage your student by conducting shorter sessions:

The online virtual classroom might be an hour per lecture, but one can break it into minutes. Teachers can summarize it with important points, can take minutes of Q/A sessions, allowing students to concentrate on the studied topics, and allow them to take small breaks

2. Always be a storyteller:

This might sound bit boring but it is very helpful in terms of imagination, every topic till it is not related with examples, or storytelling can’t keep students fully interested, yes more often than not students like to think practically, real-life imagination also helps students clear their concept’s effortless, interact with students the case study, assign students the stories and don’t afraid to use the videos.

3. Encourage students with rewards:

There are many ways to encourage students and give them recognition. Adding gamification to the online learning course contents, it can be in the mode of debate, group discussions, and basic games, can reward the students with badges, which can encourage them to be proactively engaged in the online virtual classroom and can motivate the other students to be more interactive during the sessions.

4. Help students to be interactive with each other:

Online learning courses can help students to gain more knowledge and be active however teachers can create WhatsApp and Facebook groups to share the reference links, resources with the students, they can reach out and chat with each other and clear their basic queries, this can also help students create a great bond, between all the students, generally in the school’s students play or studied along with their group only so social media engagement can be pretty much helpful.

5. Regularly modifies online course content:

The online course contents, which include the timetables, syllabus, and study materials, are great for the children, but other than normal subjects, teachers can update their contents with politics and religions, emerging topics, current affairs, trending topics, researchers, including development, including articles, conference sessions, clips, and podcasts.

6. Motivate and nurture the students:

Intrinsic motivation always drive and motivates a person, students can also be motivated like one can remind they’re of their knowledge, give the examples of the ordinary man who has gone one to become an expert and developed industries, company, how it impacts on us and how much he has given to the society, Extrinsic motivation can also be like rewards like certificates, badges, prizes and thereby motivating the students to be more engaged in online virtual classroom.

7. Provide and get feedback:

Feedback is always useful, be it a firm, schools, or students. Feedback provided to the students on their overall performance can help them immensely in their journey in virtual classrooms. The quick response of their answers, assignments, and assessing them with their current assessments firstly clear their current assessments and then give feedback on their next, in the same way, teachers can also get valuable inputs from the students, which can help teachers to upgrade to the next level, improve their content, and way of assigning lectures and homework.

8. Self-dependent and assessment opportunities:

Provide them with opportunities for self-development, help them build their confidence, nurture them, give them your invaluable inputs, and help them to be self-dependent. Finding their discussions, posts, and tests can help them nullify their mistakes and be self-dependent, not just in studies and their day-to-day life, and identify their preferences for multiple assessment opportunities.

9. Always check in’s and out’s:

In an online learning course, it’s unusual for traditional classroom teachers to regularly check in and out timings and video gallery screens to check students’ engagement, and always prepare in advance, like teachers can set rules for it and punish them for students’ irregularities and non-engagement activities

10. Conduct polls and quizzes:

Nowadays, as video conferencing has become a mandate, as many online conferencing platforms take polls as part of extracurricular activities, one can share a link and create polls, which can be played as fun games, or can be a knowledge quiz, or it can be a discussion with the formation of some groups, like a house or a club.

11. Use the whiteboard and chatbox:

Whiteboard is the main equipment for teachers which is used in the traditional classroom, it is also available in video conferencing applications like zoom, teachers can highlight the main keywords in whiteboards, it can help student students to identify their mistakes in texts and words, with a chatbox, they can ask the students personally and clear the doubts so a student might hesitate to ask in the live meetings so chatting can be useful.

12. Students are learners:

Always remember each student is not similar each has got their ideas and experiences, treat each student identically, you have got their world on your fingertips, discuss the resources, assignments and their weekend ideas and plans, because the students are not physically available, develop a strong bond and relationship, for the students which are unable to relate call them personally via video call or voice calls, ask them their feedback and resolve their queries

13. Students as the host:

This can be known as the flipped theory. Usually, coaches accompany the online classes, but for a change, teachers can ask students to take the initiative of taking the revision lecture or the free lecture. This can boost their confidence immensely, and other students can ask questions without any hesitation and interact with their classmates.

14. Flexibility:

As we know in today’s world, extra activities are important; let them use their existing talents as the assignment because not everyone likes to write essays or a book, so teachers can be flexible in students’ activities, and students will surprise them with their talents.

Hope this blog helps you to keep your diverted young minds engaged.