hi everyone Mohammad is here in this
video I will share with you four very
important tips for teaching online let's
get started before we go any further I'm
going to ask you a question how do you
feel about teaching online what comes
into your mind when you hear the word
online teaching please pause the video
and write your answer in the comment
section okay I think I got your answer
let's continue when I asked this
question to many people to my colleagues
to my friends I hear the word challenges
a lot there are technical difficulties
there is no proper training here and
there is no like classic one-to-one
interaction with the students and it's
also hard to talk to a camera right and
we can write hundreds of challenges
because I know I'm experiencing some
challenges every day I'm teaching online
six days a week so I face those
challenges every day and and many more
right but if I think about them if I
focus on that part I cannot do my job
right I know there are some challenges
and they are new for us they can make it
difficult for us to engage with students
it's they can make it difficult for us
to teach online and and I believe it's
important to recognize those challenges
but there are also a lot of advantages
for example online teaching is dynamic
and interactive you can make your
lessons fully interactive by using some
specific tools some websites and you
know there are a lot of things online
and the best advantage I hear I see his
you can improve your skill you can
improve a lot of things you can improve
your teaching skills presentation skills
speaking skills I know you can do that
for example my English was terrible when
I first start recording YouTube videos I
had a YouTube channel not this one I was
creating content for my students when I
record my very first video I didn't see
any support from my friends because you
know the video is terrible
my presentation was terrible my English
level of us was terrible but I didn't
stop I kept recording and recording
uploading and uploading and after that
people start supporting me according
your shell will help you guys a lot and
it's a it's a great strategy to improve
your skills I'm not telling you my
English is perfect now but it is much
better than it was the next one is
really important you don't need to wear
pants when you teach online I'm gonna
show you what I feel right now but but
this is really important we chose to
record everything and save everything
for our students this is also a great
great great advantage of online teaching
I can write hundreds of things on this
side as well and there are a lot of
advantages and I can tell you this my
friends if you focus on this part we
will be successful in this new teaching
format so let's get into the four very
important tips for teaching online the
first step is really important
use self-reflection techniques it's the
most common technique that athletes
politicians youtubers actually a lot of
people are doing they videotape their
performance and they watch hours of
recording to evaluate what to do and
what to improve so I personally tried
this strategy a lot and I can tell you
guys it works great it's a wonderful
strategy to improve the quality of your
videos and I'm gonna show you guys how I
change my teaching style is over the
years this is the very first video I
recorded on YouTube usually the
background there's a yellowish
background here it looks terrible I only
used one pen one color it's a black
color and I used some you know some
animations here the first part is a blog
but you know it doesn't look really good
but now when you look at the video now
after I record this video guys I just
used some soft reflection techniques to
work on the video because I was trying
to make my content better and better so
in the next one I change the background
it is whiter it looks better
and I add also one more color here right
it's now black and red and and after
that I added blue color as well and I
used some uses some materials here as
well so these are the first three videos
I recorded on YouTube and you see the
improvements even in three videos after
I record these videos guys I realized
that it would be really hard to write
down everything on paper right I try to
use a different strategy and I decided
to do some PowerPoint presentations
everything comes in order I put some
animations on it but my students didn't
like it and they wanted me to write in
real time so they want to see some
interaction between me and the the thing
I'm presenting because it looks like a
book right so I decided to use the laser
tool but it doesn't help me a lot and
then I decided to use my mouse and
annotate on the screen so you see this
there are some annotations on the screen
now it looks better than the previous
one but again it was really hard to
write things with the mouse I tried I
tried a lot
maybe I recorded like four or five
videos like that but I knew that this
this wasn't the solution so I searched
for some hardware and then in 2016 I
found this devices graphics tablet and I
realized that some youtubers for using
those devices the graphics tablets to
teach online and I ordered one and I
started using in my lectures and this is
what I got in my next video so every
time I record a video on YouTube I use
these strategies watch my videos over
and over again and see the problems and
try to make it better next time so this
is the most popular technique on YouTube
but you can definitely do it for your
live sessions as well just record it
watch it over and over again and see
your mistakes and don't do it next time
so self reflection is the first thing
comes to my mind if I say the basics of
online teaching because it lets
know how I teach how I speak do I use
like some words a lot and do I do some
anything distracting with my voice with
my gestures or is my writing clear or
etc it gives me a lot of a lot of
answers and if you do it regularly you
will see the improvement you have made
tip number two plan your week we are
very used to have 45 60 Minutes class
time if there was no pandemic we will be
in a physical classroom and we plan what
we will read what people write on the
board what questions we will ask the
students and everything to fill 45 16
minutes right but in online education
it's not like that we don't have hours
you don't have sessions actually we have
weeks because we cannot teach everything
live or everything online in 45 60
minutes so we need to plan all the week
not only one day or one hour or one
session actually it's better for us if
you plan it really well because it saves
you time you don't need to do everything
live you can ask your students to things
watch videos read articles throughout
the week and they can work on them
whenever they're free they can do that
in their own schedule and you will save
time tip number three we have to find
ways to communicate with our students
our students are not in a physical
classroom so they usually sit at home
alone with no friends simply they are in
isolation and this situation has a lot
of limitations for example if they don't
understand a topic they cannot simply
turn around and s as their friend right
and they are also really really shy to
ask questions when they need so we need
to find some strategies to cope with
these limitations if I experienced those
problems I tried teaching slowly
repeating several times doing more
examples giving them more practices and
more in class time I
use digital tools like some websites
some like calculators graphs and I also
use some YouTube videos in my lectures
and there are also some games really
useful games online if you get their
questions and answer them that is great
so if you don't get you need to be sure
that everybody gets the point there are
also other problems you may experience
in online teaching let's say you have a
test on Monday and you are telling your
students in a live session that they
have a test on Monday if this is the
only way you communicate with your
students you will see some problems on
Monday they will say there has a
connection problem on Friday and they
didn't hear you very well
right and it might be true so you can
use different strategies to communicate
with your students you can post in your
website or in your digital classroom you
can email them you can call them you can
call their parents or we can use some
communication tools like whatsapp ok
because you need to make them feel that
you are always watching them you are
using every opportunity to communicate
with them you are carrying your students
and supporting them it's really
important if they feel that you are
doing everything you can in your online
lessons they feel really they really
feel supported and you will be their
hero and the last tip number 4 be
yourself if you're teaching online or
recording your lessons I feel you it is
stressful to talk to the camera but just
be yourself use your own words on
expressions gestures tell jokes tell
stories
just be yourself not somebody else you
don't have to be robotic when you teach
online right show the teaching charisma
you already have and you can send
cartoons send videos send jokes send
appropriate memes to your students as
well so those things guys will help them
understand you are sharing them and this
is this is really really really
important so these are the practices I
found really useful to understand the
basics of
teaching online and this practice has
helped me a lot and I believe it will be
helpful for you as well just try and you
will see the improvement in your
lectures don't forget there are a lot of
things online because you can find you
can watch some YouTube videos you can
see what your colleagues but your
friends on YouTube are doing and don't
try to solve all the problems by
yourself don't waste your time just find
solutions online be healthy all the time
and have a work-life balance I know we
are not educated to be an online teacher
but we can see this as an opportunity to
help our students and to improve our
21st century teaching skills because we
don't know what the future brings right
so let's try our best
ok let's improve me now I wish you all
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