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Posted on Saturday, October 30th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Online Teaching Jobs – Beyond the Curriculum
Experienced teachers know that the curriculum is really just a skeleton. It’s an outline of the subject area, which sets out what learners need to cover to pass the tests at the end. Real learning goes beyond covering the curriculum. It’s about understanding, making connections and thinking outside of the box. Of course, this applies to online teaching jobs just as much as conventional classroom teaching.
One of the strengths of online learning is that it offers many opportunities to achieve this more holistic educational goal. Online teaching jobs present teachers with ways of giving students a 21st century learning experience.
Educational technology (ed tech for short) is revolutionizing classroom teaching and distance learning alike. Along with the potential of Web 2.0, with its emphasis on interactivity, you can make your online teaching jobs something new and exciting for your students. And it should also be stimulating and rewarding for you as the teacher!
Every subject, and every set of learners, invites a different approach. The great thing about online teaching jobs is the huge scope there is for delivering personalized teaching. Ed tech software is there to help you do this. There has been an explosion of computer-based educational aids, directed at enriching the learning experience in general, as well as addressing particular areas of learning difficulty.
A question is: how do you keep up? A quick internet search will give you ample leads, from ed tech bulletins and online journals, to online learning websites that update teachers on new resources and authoritative assessments of how effective new tools are in the experience of students and teachers alike.
If you run your online teaching jobs from home, rather than as an affiliate of an institution, then the cost issue may rear its head. Some ed tech materials are pricy, especially when they’ve only recently been released. But there is one new and growing trend in online learning that everyone involved in online teaching jobs should know about. It’s called open course software and you can get and use it for free.
You’ll find tools to create virtual learning environments, tools to help students apply their knowledge and think laterally, tools to create your own educational resources for use in your online teaching jobs, and much more.
For people in online teaching jobs who enjoy technology, it’s like kids getting access to a giant toy store. But, of course, ed tech is a means to an end and it’s no substitute for real teaching and the personal touch. Still, checking out what’s available will give you endless inspiration for enhancing the way you work in your online teaching jobs.
Among these innovative resources for e-learning you may find vital aids to help bring the curriculum to life for your learners. Interactive materials, games, collaborative learning opportunities, management software … it’s all there for you to use in your online teaching jobs. Ed tech, carefully used, can help you bring another dimension to your online teaching jobs and the personalized attention you can give to your students.
After all, it’s not just your students who need to learn to think outside of the curriculum. Everyone in online teaching jobs also needs to do just that.
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