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Teaching Children Online Published 18 March 2020 Are you a primary English teacher who is about to teach online for the first time? Or, are you a primary teacher facing the dual challenge of teaching children online and preparing them for English exams? Or, maybe you already teach English online and are looking for extra ready-to-use ideas to engage and motivate children? David Valente shares advice on ways of teaching children online, keeping them engaged and focused on the task in hand. Top 6 Hugely Popular Virtual Classroom Software Popular Virtual Classroom Software Free for up to 100 Students Fluent HD Video/Audio/IM Chat Screen Sharing and Whiteboard Polls, Survey and Recording Rebranding and Paid Courses Sign Up Free NOW Conventional teaching technique alone can no longer satisfy all the demands of individuals of different age groups. They require a more flexible and easier way to teach as well as learn without any time and area restriction. Among a plethora of options for sharing knowledge online, virtual classroom software has gained immense popularity.

Teaching Your Adult English Class Online Published 19 March 2020 Our blog series continues to help English teachers move their classes online in view of many institutions being closed due to the Covid-19 virus. Today’s post is by Carol Rainbow, who offers suggestions for teaching your adult English class online. The virtual learning environment

Should you add a synchronous component to your online teaching strategy? In this two-part blog series, Keypath Instructional Services offers guidance for online faculty interested in ways to augment their fully online course using synchronous meetings. The first blog, written by Keypath Director of Faculty Engagement, Christine Lewinski, provides ideas for online faculty to consider in deciding whether to blend in synchronous elements in a fully online course. The second blog, written by Keypath Global Vice President of Instructional Services, Chris Valadez, provides insights into the challenges and opportunities to consider in any decision to integrate synchronous into an online learning program design, along with types of programs that lends themselves more easily to synchronous learning than others. Building in synchronous meetings times with your online students may sound counterintuitive.

Ideas for adapting group lessons to working on Zoom As has happened in much of Europe, Poland has now closed schools, universities and other places where people might gather in the hope of reducing the spread of coronavirus. Our school had its last normal lessons on Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday dedicated to training our teachers how to use Zoom. We start teaching on Monday 16th, so my total experience with Zoom so far has been in the training process. However, I wanted to share what we’ve done and some of the ideas we’ve had for our adapting our standard EFL face-to-face lessons, in the hope that others will be able to build on this.

Importance Of Synchronous Elements In Fully Online Courses - EFMDGN blog By Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder Connect2Teach Most institutions today are moving towards developing online courses that are 100% asynchronous (pre-recorded, self-paced) given its scalability. While the debate of asynchronous vs synchronous courses has been going for a while, we believe that even the best asynchronous courses have synchronous elements.

Moving your classes online #2 Published 13 March 2020 This is a follow up post from Ceri Jones who continues to share advice on how teachers can feel prepared with teaching students and moving classes online. Ceri Jones is a teacher, trainer and materials writer based in Spain. She is part of the author team for our courses Eyes Open and Evolve as well as an online tutor for The Consultants-E. Moving Your Classes Online #1 Published 13 March 2020 To help support all teachers who now have to teach from home due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we have created a series of blog posts with expert advice on how to move your classes online. To begin, here’s a message from Eric Baber, Director of Professional Learning and Development, introducing the blog series. Moving your classes online: getting started