Classroom management in online lessons
We’ve talked about gaining a rapport and maintaining engagement in online lessons. Let’s now turn to classroom management. Task Watch the video of Lindsay and Marie Therese talking about how …
Course: Teaching English Online
Maintaining engagement in online lessons
Maintaining engagement can be harder in an online environment, especially in contexts where learners haven’t selected to learn online but have to because of necessity, and where class sizes are …
How to share your screen and see your learners
One difference between face-to-face lessons and online lessons is a reduced ability to see all your learners on screen at the same time. This may be because learners don’t switch …
Dealing with issues in online lessons
No matter how experienced we are in teaching online, issues will arise that we need to deal with. Task Match problems 1-6 to solutions A-F. Do the matching task interactively …
Collaborative writing tasks
If you teach groups and have access to breakout rooms, you can include collaborative writing tasks in your live online lessons. You can also ask learners to complete collaborative writing …
How to add a virtual background to safeguard privacy
One way to safeguard our privacy and the privacy of our learners is to ask them to blur their background or add a photograph to act as a virtual background. …
How to use the interactive whiteboard and annotation feature
The interactive whiteboard feature of a platform can be very useful when clarifying the meaning, form and pronunciation of new language, among other things. Task If you’re unfamiliar with how …
How to use breakout rooms
When working with groups of learners, it can be really beneficial to use breakout rooms for pair and group work if you have access to them. Task 1 If you’re …
Sharing audio and video in your platform
We’ve talked about sharing your screen. When you want to play audio or video on your device for learners to hear/watch, you may need to tick a button that allows …
Organising, managing and assessing speaking activities
Organising, managing and assessing speaking tasks in online learning contexts is both similar and different to doing the same in face-to-face lessons. Task Listen to Lindsay and Marie Therese talking …
Assessing learning in online lessons
We’ve looked at teaching reading and listening skills in online lessons. Let’s now think about how we might assess these skills in the online context. Task Read the article below …
Planning online lessons
Before we think about planning and delivering receptive skills lessons, let’s start by thinking about planning online lessons in general. Planning online lessons is similar in many ways to planning …
How to Share a Screen Online
When planning lessons, we need to decide what materials we’ll use, how we’ll share those materials with our learners and when. There are two main options: sending materials to learners …
Video review of week 1
We’ve come to the end of the first week of the course. In this video, Lindsay and Marie Therese look back at some of the main talking points of the …
What’s on next week?
Here’s a taste of what we’ll cover next week. Task Watch the video. What do you think Lindsay and Marie Therese are talking about? Share your ideas in the comments. …