Online Teaching and Paradigm Shift

How Holly Mortimer Took Her Teaching Career Online | Edutopia

This is a short video outlining the experience of a teacher who chose to teach high school (three different schools/classes) entirely online.

What caught my attention was her explanation of the paradigm shift as follows:

• FROM: what you are going to teach and how you are going to teach it
• TO: what the students are learning, how they are not learning and how they are not engaged

She add that the shift is from content to students, and promp -- immediate -- feedback is key to get the student population involved and motivated.

She explains the importance of seizing the moment when a student reaches out with a question and how crucial it is to offer immediate response.

She says that in online teaching the level of accountability is much higher, there is a lot more data to digest and many different marking matrix.

If the following applies to you, Holly says that online teaching is definitely for you:

• enjoy creating online curriculum
• feel enthusiastic about having displays in the classroom
• like designing lessons, tests and evaluations

In my opinion, the above applies to both face-to-face and online teaching, and I feel I am ready for my next journey -- whenever it presents itself.