Not exact matches
It's also easier for you, as you don't have to deal with the costs and logistics of running a
traditional classroom - based
training program for tens, hundreds or even thousands of people of all kinds of backgrounds and skill levels.
I find that these programs often reach students in a way that
traditional classroom teachers have not been
trained to
do.
Online
training might have helped us
do away with the
traditional classroom (and the associated rigid schedules and costs), but it was never meant to totally replace teachers.
These big - ticket items point out the need for better up - front planning and strategy around
training teachers to successfully implement personalized learning, as well as the need to carefully think through the costs of creating spaces that are better suited to personalized learning, where students are often required to move in ways that don't fit the
traditional classroom design.
I don't want to get into a whole introduction about the shift that the
training industry has undergone recently (and continues to undergo), away from a focus on
traditional classroom training and toward a long - term continuous learning outlook.
Instead of thinking of online
training as an impersonal way to use technology to replace humans, think of it as an opportunity to
do cool things you couldn't in a
traditional classroom setting.
We were told that we could raise student achievement if we just understood what was «absolutely essential for all students to know and be able to
do» and never strayed from the «drive -
train sequence» (a metaphor taken from the way power is transmitted in motors) of the SBE
classroom, which, we were informed, was different from the
traditional classroom.
It doesn't work in a
traditional classroom setting, and it certainly has no place in ongoing professional
training or online learning.
Online teacher
training involves much of the workload that
traditional in - the - class instruction
does: textbook lessons,
classroom observations, student teaching.
Screen shot from class Online teacher
training involves much of the workload that
traditional in - the - class instruction
does: textbook lessons,
classroom observations, student teaching.
In curriculum and content, online teacher
training programs are similar to
traditional programs and require a comparable number of hours that candidates spend
doing their student teaching requirement in brick - and - mortar
classrooms.
And you can believe that graduates of
traditional teacher education programs (who spend 4 to 5 years studying their content area, pedagogy, learning theories, child development, and gaining experience in school
classrooms working with actual students and practicing teachers) aren't as «good» as the graduates of elite colleges and universities (who didn't major in education and only get a few weeks of
training before entering the
classroom.)