How to keep students engaged in Virtual Classroom?

Title: How to keep students engaged in Virtual Classroom?


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How to keep students engaged in Virtual Classroom?
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An Introduction

• Over the years, innovative and enterprising
  teachers have come up with unique ideas to help
  the students connect with the subject. From
  introducing games to the students to including
  video to make the topics more relatable to the
  students and to boost engagement rate between
  student and teacher. Hence, virtual classroom
  software plays an important role in students
  life.

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Learning in the Age of COVID-19

• Today, the world is changing once more as
  work-from-home and learn-from home is the new
  mandate in almost every part of the world. In
  this scenario, schools have adopted virtual
  classrooms as the new norm and educators are
  making every valiant effort to keep educating
  kids as best as they can.

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Steps on how to keep students engaged in Virtual
Classroom
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1. Prepare in Advance

• Just like a traditional classroom, a virtual
  classroom also needs the teachers and the
  students to be prepared in advance. A useful tip
  will be for the teachers to create a list of all
  the things the students need and then to send out
  the list to all the parents so that they can prep
  the learners with all the resources. These can
  include books, texts, stationary etc.

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2. Set the rules at the beginning

• Just like the teachers, the students too are not
  familiar with the concept of a virtual classroom
  and hence teachers can start every morning with
  familiarizing the students with the rules of a
  virtual classroom. These rules can include
  guidelines on mike, camera, chat etiquette for
  the students to follow.

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3. Create a reward system for the students 

• One simple way to engage the learners in the
  virtual classroom is to introduce short-term and
  long-term goals and rewards into your online
  classroom. Rewards such as positive feedback,
  virtual points, badges can go a long way in
  reinforcing the learning's and motivating the
  student to engage better in the classroom

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4. Questions, questions and more questions

• In an attempt to keep the students more engaged,
  it is important that the teacher ask as many
  questions to the students as possible. Instead of
  just reading or explaining the lesson to the
  students, questions allow the lesson to be more
  interactive and hence keeps the students engaged. 

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5. Keep the class short and lessons crisp

• Learning online is a huge task, especially for
  younger students who may find it daunting to sit
  before the screen for long hours. By splitting
  content into smaller more manageable bite-sized
  chunks, educators can help to keep students to
  stay engaged and feel enthusiastic about the
  virtual learning experience.

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6. Continuous progress check-ins

• One of the easiest ways to remind students of the
  previous lessons and help them feel connected to
  the class is through short-term progress checks.
  These can include revision, assignments or quick
  quizzes on previous topics to jog the students
  memories and help them connect the dots between
  the classes.

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7. Building a student teacher bond

• Just as some students do not connect in a
  traditional, physical classroom because they feel
  invisible and believe that they have no valuable
  inputs, similarly many students may also feel
  that they will not be missed in the virtual one.
  Additionally, some students do not find their
  teachers very engaging or are unable to relate
  with them.

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8. Use the flipped classroom model to engage the
students

• Using the flipped classroom model, teachers can
  send students resources such as texts, videos,
  podcasts, etc., to provide background knowledge
  to the topic being learnt. The actual learning
  time in the virtual classroom can then be used
  for subsequent learning activities like group or
  one-on-one discussions.

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Conclusion

• Today, teachers need to remember that the need of
  the hour is for unlearning their processes and
  teaching method and look for new ways in which
  they can harness technology to teach better and
  made a stronger impact on their students, who are
  also struggling in isolation without their
  peers.  

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