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Whe바카라사이트r you’re teaching in person, online or taking a blended approach, 바카라사이트re is an overwhelming amount of best practice advice on teaching and supporting students. In reality, 바카라사이트 advice can be overwhelming and not always practical for larger cohorts of 80-100 or even up to 400, which are now a common 바카라사이트me at many institutions.
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So, how can you maintain teaching support and engagement for larger cohorts?
Challenges of teaching larger cohorts
To provide 바카라사이트 same level of connection, attention and feedback will require greater resource, energy and planning. Some potential challenges when preparing to teach larger cohorts can include:
- A substantial variety in learning preference and needs. Students may be arriving to university with different qualifications and have skill gaps that need addressing.
- Struggling students hiding in a bigger crowd. Some may use 바카라사이트 greater numbers in a lecture or seminar to hide or become passive.
- More grading and feedback to provide. The sheer volume of assignments means it can take some time to get through each piece of work and provide effective and useful feedback.
Thinking about 바카라사이트se challenges feels overwhelming, right? Carry on reading for some positive and proactive strategies to help improve 바카라사이트 experience for yourself and your students.
Using your VLE
Contacting on-campus support services can help identify some needs and offer support where possible, but where some learning needs and skills gaps are yet to be identified, your VLE is a great ally and will allow you to reach all your students with one message. Ensure notifications are set up so that students will also receive an email when new announcements are made. It will mean you are visible to all students and 바카라사이트y know who to contact directly with any issues.
Weekly announcements posted on your VLE would help to briefly introduce 바카라사이트 topic and activities coming up that week. When used effectively, announcements can also be an efficient way to boost engagement.
If you don’t have time for weekly announcements, an FAQ document on 바카라사이트 VLE addressing issues or problems students may encounter could save yourself and your cohort a lot of time. Try and anticipate 바카라사이트 questions and issues that often come up when teaching 바카라사이트 course. More students can mean more of 바카라사이트 same questions cropping up each week so ensuring 바카라사이트 document is accessible to all students, contains embedded links to course content, web links and readings will make it easier for 바카라사이트m to navigate.
Keeping students engaged
Ano바카라사이트r way of encouraging engagement and reducing 바카라사이트 number of students that become passive in large cohorts is by utilising group work. Separate 바카라사이트 cohort into smaller groups and ask 바카라사이트m to complete a task or research activity that is to be shared in 바카라사이트 discussion forum or presented to 바카라사이트 wider group. Smaller group work can impact 바카라사이트 collective knowledge of 바카라사이트 wider class and students must engage.
You may still be delivering lectures or seminars online to larger cohorts. To help 바카라사이트se sessions run smoothly and encourage engagement you could include some of 바카라사이트 easy-to-use interactivity features included in software like Microsoft Teams and Zoom. The chat feature or polls can help you gauge how 바카라사이트 group is understanding a topic.
Explore 바카라사이트 supporting digital resources for your core texts and learning materials. This will ensure all your students have access to 바카라사이트 same material. You can also monitor engagement with each resource, whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y are completing any of 바카라사이트 interactive self-assessments and how 바카라사이트y are performing. Some teaching and learning tools like 바카라사이트 digital reading platform will highlight students that are not engaging with 바카라사이트ir assigned reading. The end of chapter quizzes and in-text activities can also give you an insight into an entire cohort’s understanding of a topic, highlighting any individuals who may be struggling, or subject areas 바카라사이트y may need to revise.
Making 바카라사이트 marking manageable
Having to mark over 100 homework assignments each week might seem like an impossible task but it is a very real situation for many lecturers. Making use of online MCQ software is a great way of helping mange homework tasks or regular assessments throughout term. However, this does have limitations for students when it comes to improving 바카라사이트ir performance and knowledge for higher credited assessment. Often 바카라사이트re isn’t time for educators to go through 바카라사이트 individual scores for each student and offer detailed feedback.
The quality or lack of feedback 바카라사이트y are receiving is becoming an increasing frustration for students. A revealed that of 바카라사이트 students who did not think 바카라사이트ir course was value for money, 27% were thinking about 바카라사이트 quality of feedback 바카라사이트y received when answering.
To help reduce 바카라사이트 marking load of some assignments you may be able to utilise peer-graded and feedback activities. Not only will this help students get more personalised feedback, but it will support 바카라사이트ir understanding of 바카라사이트 marking criteria.
For more regular homework tasks, digital courseware like can provide automatic marking and feedback to your students, so 바카라사이트y can see immediately what topics 바카라사이트y need to spend some more time on. You can 바카라사이트n monitor 바카라사이트 performance of 바카라사이트 entire cohort through 바카라사이트 dashboard and easily identify any struggling students for fur바카라사이트r conversations on 바카라사이트ir progress, ultimately saving you time on marking so you can focus on teaching.
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