Ongoing communication

Effective communication is essential to online instruction.  While high quality material may be set up to be delivered, students may not be getting it.  Follow up with students and parents is necessary to keep students on track.

In my current online teaching, I follow up with students by sending a weekly email explaining the weeks activities and expectations.

I make a weekly visit to schools to see students face to face and answer their questions.

I give feedback and commentary on graded assignments.  Read and Write for Google is great for this.

I have also called parents for students who are not meeting expectations.  Increased parental involvement has improved these students performance.

Another idea is to give positive feedback for a job particularly well done.  Here is one I may use.

As a note, I do not own nor did I create this image.