We\u2019ve been teaching online for a year now, and though it\u2019s not something we ever expected to do, we\u2019ve found a lot of amazing benefits. To celebrate i-Learner\u2019s online-teaching anniversary, our tutors have chosen their favourite aspects of virtual lessons.<\/p>\n
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Online Teaching is Flexible and Adaptable<\/b><\/p>\n
It should come as no surprise that in this year of change, we\u2019ve loved the tools that help things stay the same. Stopping face-to-face classes doesn\u2019t stop us teaching, because our classrooms can exist wherever we are. Forty percent of our teachers said flexibility was their favourite thing about online teaching.<\/p>\n
Some of our teachers have moved to be closer to family during this year, and they\u2019ve been able to take their classes along with them. Our students have also benefited from this flexibility. Some of them live far away from our education centres, and instead of travelling to join their classes, they only have to turn on the computers in their living rooms.<\/p>\n
This sense of continuity is especially important now. As Mr Rob<\/a> shared, online teaching allows students \u2018to continue their learning under difficult circumstances, and \u2026 express themselves in a small-group environment.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Connections are Closer During this Difficult Time<\/b><\/p>\n Now that classrooms are in our homes, students and teachers can strengthen their bonds and make learning even more productive and individualised. From their first online lessons, Ms Brenda<\/a>\u2019s young students have loved showing their favourite Sumikko toys to their classmates, and \u2018the laughter was really from the bottom of their hearts.\u2019<\/p>\n A third of our teachers said this close connection was their favourite thing about online learning, and many of them added that this sharing of students\u2019 home lives was a large part of that. This doesn\u2019t only make classes more enjoyable, but it\u2019s important for learning too. As Ms Iqra<\/a> says, these genuine connections \u2018make the lesson more interactive, interesting and educational in aspects of life that aren\u2019t in textbooks.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Creative Solutions are at our Fingertips<\/b><\/p>\n A quarter of our teachers chose access to online resources as their favourite thing about video lessons. Ms Lina<\/a> likes to \u2018integrate multimedia resources such as videos,\u2019 and other teachers love the texts, images and games they can easily integrate into their lessons to bring them to life.<\/p>\n Ms Jean<\/a> has found that the virtual world is a great help when teaching tricky concepts: \u2018In courses like Critical Reading and Writing<\/a> level 3, which I teach at the moment, there can be unfamiliar vocabulary where pictures are very helpful to students\u2019 understanding of the context. My students love it when I look things up with them, and we usually end up learning something new together.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This creativity is what makes learners succeed. At i-Learner, we love to nurture curiosity in our students, and online lessons are an excellent way to do that. What\u2019s your favourite thing about online learning?<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019ve been teaching online for a year now, and though it\u2019s not something we ever expected to do, we\u2019ve found a lot of amazing benefits. To celebrate i-Learner\u2019s online-teaching anniversary, our tutors have chosen their favourite aspects of virtual lessons. Online Teaching is Flexible and Adaptable It should come as no surprise that in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":15847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[819],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15848,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846\/revisions\/15848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}