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Online classes are not lively and dull. But can they be made one cut down the monotony?

It is what you as teachers are supposed to strive for and improve the learning experience of students. While it is true that, with pandemic outbreak making everything disorganized, it is a double responsibility to stop complaining and work towards adaptability.

Nothing on earth has been easy. Nothing in our life came easy. Teaching in the traditional classroom as well had its set of challenges that you may have complained about several times. Think of it and then see if you were still able to enjoy working in that environment with zeal.

Similarly, in the current model, not everything is challenging. Life from post-Covid-19 is going to be extremely different. But certainly, online classes will continue for long as the safety of life is dear to everyone. The report suggests post-Covid-19 there will be about 100 days and 600 hours of active learning from home. However, what is in store, only time will unravel.

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The regular school schedule had gone for a toss in the lockdown. The digital divide is pervasive. Even in this uncertain situation, there is hardly any doubt about the efforts put forward by the teachers and the students to keep the momentum of learning agile. However, one cannot ignore that the situation is dismal.

Apart from the digital gap, there is also a fundamental gap in how teachers practice the new instructional method and how much of it students can grasp. Well, as the saying goes, “I thrive in structure, I drown in chaos,” so is the case with online classes.

Most of the challenges faced by the students are due to chaotic situations. We say so because the top most challenges that we researched across social media platforms highlighted student’s discomfort to adapt to the new changing class environment. Let us discuss some of these issues here one by one to throw more light on them.

Technical issue A network problem is no new challenge for anyone living in India or elsewhere. Many say the technical issue is very fundamental to an online-only environment. There is no quick fix for a network issue. If it is kept unworked for long, a student may well land up missing one or two classes for the entire day. Similarly, what can a student do if the smartphone hangs in the middle of the class? Even a fraction of a second wasted in restarting a device amounts to a loss of learning.

Distractions and time management

The issue with distraction in online classes is not peculiar to remote learning. In offline classes, distraction is less as the fear of punishment if caught by the teacher overpowers the student’s mind. It lets them stay alert throughout the class. In the online class, the student does not have such fear element working in their mind. Further, the casual home environment and irregularity with class timings add on to the distraction level.

Demotivation

There is a quick shift in the online class environment from the physical classroom set-up. No matter what, this does trigger in their mind often. It is particularly visible in younger students than the older ones. Students are yet to adjust to the no structured class system or the varying instructional approaches different teachers adopt to make learning fruitful even when taken online.

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Teachers not just in India but elsewhere too are worried about the learning outcome because teaching online is not the same as it is in the classroom. The set of approaches in both online and traditional classroom is different in many areas. In online classes, more emphasis is on making learning effective for a better outcome.

Teaching online requires constant interaction with the students to keep them engaged in the class. Teachers’ effort to learn new skills to make teaching apt for online classes is unquestionable. But they have to keep trying out the methods they are learning, and self-evaluate to see if it is benefitting them. Now because the teachers do not have direct interaction with the students, establishing a similar kind of interaction in the remote learning setup can be immensely beneficial.  

Earlier, we had pointed out the importance of creating the right environment and ways to foster the interest of the students in online classes. Reiterating the same point, here we will discuss a set of fresh five online teaching strategies that will help teachers boost learning. Read on to unravel them one by one.

Bringing Digital Equity: In an online classroom, there is a chance that not all students will be tech proficient. The online classroom setup is new for all; be it a teacher or a student. As their mentor, first, spot out the technological capabilities of your students in the class. Remove any confusion in using classroom technology. Explain to them the importance of using classroom technology for privacy and the importance of access to VPN. Know what kind of work students will be able to perform online using classroom tools. There will be one or two students in the entire class who will be tech-savvy. Delegate them some responsibility to take charge and help their peers know the technology better.        

Using Online Whiteboard: All this while, students were accustomed to seeing teachers write down the key points of the lesson on the whiteboard in a physical classroom setup. Keeping the same practice intact, teachers can make use of online whiteboard over traditional whiteboards in online classes. Unlike the traditional whiteboard where a teacher could only write texts which were restricted to paper documents, in the online whiteboard they can do more. Say, along with texts, they can showcase images, shapes, and others. 

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A recent survey conducted in New York found that of 2,000 parents 70% now realize, being a teacher is a much harder profession than their own job. In fact, there’s more. With the coronavirus lockdown teachers had to manage both parenting at home and teaching at digital classrooms. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that 77% of the people feel that Teachers deserve a salary bump! E-Learning is the future.

The crisis has further highlighted, not undermined, the importance of school communities to students’ learning and revealed the limits of technology in education. And leading this new era of Digital Learning are Teachers. Teachers have been recognized as the unsung heroes of Covid-19.

But there’s a negative side of the story as well. In the wake of pandemic, schools and colleges have witnessed widespread protests from parents on fees payment. The chant being “No school, No fees”. But a cut in fees had a direct impact on the salary of the Teachers. Many schools had to significantly reduce the Teacher’s salary to accommodate for the cut in fees payment.

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