Full Description
What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher educators in mind. Meskill and Anthony offer a wealth of examples of what successful online teaching looks like, and provide a rich source of practical, conversation-based strategies for optimizing online learning. This book will inspire anyone teaching or planning to teach fully online, or in a blended or hybrid format, by demonstrating how well constructed online conversations constitute powerful teaching.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Teaching Online: A Conversational Approach
Chapter 2. Saturating and Modeling in Online Teaching
Chapter 3. Corralling Student Learning in Online Teaching
Chapter 4. Orchestrating Interactions and Scaffolding Synthetic Thinking
Chapter 5. Providing Feedback in Online Teaching
Chapter 6. Elements of Effective Online Instructional Conversations
Chapter 7. Future Directions for Online Teaching and Learning
