Teaching in the digital space is a very lucrative and very noble occupation as a lot of people who are skilled and have great content to offer, don’t really know how to teach effectively and become a very good teacher that students will want to follow always and look forward to. Here are few guidelines that can help anyone become a good online teacher:

– Know yourself and know your students. This is a mark of a good communicator.

You need to be benefit curious about them, asking yourself the question of  ‘’what benefits are they going to get from your teaching’’?  This will help you to really connect and add impact to the information you’re presenting to them.

 

– Relate what you’re teaching to a story in the news as it will help people to understand and follow what you’re saying.

– List problems and questions that the knowledge presents as this will help you to figure out what to do next.

– Ponder on the benefits of the knowledge to the students especially what can  they  do  with it and what issues can they solve?

– Clarify how the student’s life  and skills will improve once action is taken on the information. 

 

– Create visual impact that helps you convey information more effectively. This is because visual content helps in time saving and makes communication more direct. It can replace words, illustrate them, and even deepen their meaning.

 

– Develop and train your voice for proper projection

 

– Leverage storytelling as it helps students understand complicated topics. It is much easier to teach concepts through stories with characters, circumstances, and places that students can identify with than to learn in an abstract manner.

 

– Make your lessons and class fun and entertaining so that students can engage.

 

 These are just a few tips that we believe can help anyone become a good online teacher.  Take action on them and you will see a real positive shift.  Share your thoughts in the comment section about online teaching.