It is a new semester. You look at the class roster and see 35 students in the class. You have to teach several sections with 35 students in each class. How in the world are you going to remember each students' hobbies, interests, or careers so that you can adapt your lessons to fit each student? How are you going to remember them all?
Some of my colleagues make an Excel Spreadsheet and on that Excel Spreadsheet, they write down each students' interests, hobbies, and career goals and class goals.
"The tricks of the memory trade work online as well as the physical face-to-face settings. The best strategy is linking something personal, unique and unusual about the learner to the learners name, personal goals or something else. Learners can be encouraged to post something that will help you individualized them by asking them something that will likely result in a memorable posting. Here are a few suggestions for questions to include in the getting acquainted postings:
- What do you think it's particularly unique about how you think?
- What is your most memorable ha ha learning moment?
- What is your highest priority for the class, And why?
- What's your best kept secret for being a successful online learner?
- What do you have in common with at least one other learner in the course?" (Conrad, 142)
"The concept of Cognitive Presence is often described as the extent to which the professor and the students are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained discourse in a Community of Inquiry. Reading a student's postings on how he/ she thinks provides baseline information for the faculty mentor. This information helps faculty provide teaching direction based on what students have already in their heads." (Conrad, 143)
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