BICOL UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL
LEGAZPI ALBAY
MaReadEd 212 – Effective Practices in Reading Education
1st Semester, 2020 - 2021
Name:
Program:
Professor:
ARGIE R. ARANDIA
Master of Arts in Reading Education
Dr. Rebecca R. Bercasio
During this pandemic crisis, the government imposed distance learning in
all schools here in our country. Under the umbrella of distance learning is online
learning. Where in, learners and teachers met in a specific online platform to talk
about on a certain topic. The minimum requirement for students to participate in
an online course is access to a computer, the Internet, and the motivation to
succeed in a non-traditional classroom. Parents have a big role, in making their
children motivated in achieving academic excellence in e-learning.
On my virtual demo teaching, I realized that online learning is quite
challenging for the teacher. As a teacher, we need to be more familiar with the
features of the online platform that we will be using, in order to have a meaningful
and fun discussion to our student. We also need to plan out the lessons ahead of
time with syllabus, assignments, rubrics, and resources should be posted on the
site in advance, so that students can make the most of flexibility of online courses
to work ahead as needed.
Being an online teacher, we can’t see our learners right away. We don’t
know if they are still listening to the discussion or doing other stuff. Based on my
experience as an online teacher, we need to ask our learners to open their web
cam, just to make sure that they are still there and listening attentively to the
discussion. We also need to call their names one at a time, and make sure that
all the learners should take part in the discussion.
Power point presentation is very useful in doing online classes because it
helps to improve the student’s focus. PowerPoint allows us to use images, audio
and video to have a greater visual impact. These visual and audio cues may also
help a presenter be more improvisational and interactive with the learner. It is
also easier to engage our learners by using striking images that can hold on to
their attention, while clear bullet points or summary text helps them follows the
logic of a presentation.
To sum up everything, the virtual demo lesson went well. The comments and
feedback of the viewer’s will serve as an eye opener for me as a virtual demo
teacher to improve more and sustain the best practices that the viewers
observed. In delivering the lesson to the learner, we should still follow the
techniques and strategies that we’re doing in the traditional classroom set up. As
a
teacher
we
have
to
remember
the POISE framework!
Be Prepared,
manage Objective, keep the lesson Interesting and Simple and set Expectations.
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