Presence & Leadership

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Presence & Leadership
Teaching in a Virtual Classroom

Teaching in a Virtual Classroom

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Course description

In the absence of face-to-face and in-person interactions, those who teach in a virtual classroom setting must leverage new strategies for developing an environment that is conducive to participation, sharing of ideas, and effective collaboration. To do this, teachers need to be able to communicate in a way that builds trust, provides support, and facilitates interactions for students that are inclusive, focused, and productive. In this virtual program, teachers will learn new behaviors and approaches to help them succeed.

What participants will learn

Through diverse content, reflection, and activities, teachers will learn the fundamentals of presence in a virtual setting—including how to engage, support, and include their students in a remote classroom.

The benefit of taking this course

Participants will learn to engage virtual student audiences more effectively, develop stronger and more intentional physical and vocal presence for class presentations, make more authentic, trusting connections with remote students, deliver more engaging virtual presentations, and facilitate more successful student interactions.

Program outline

Audience: Teachers and faculty who are new to teaching in a virtual classroom, or who want to brush up on tips, best practices, and more
Delivery: Asynchronous self-paced
Timing: Approximately 2 hours

Welcome and introduction
Experience a welcome to the program and introduction to the learning platform.

Explore a framework for authentic virtual presence
Become grounded in a shared definition of virtual presence.
Learn a four-part model for presence that captures the essential components of an authentic, adaptive virtual presence: being present, reaching out, being expressive, and being self-knowing.
Explore strategies for keeping oneself and one’s audience present and focused in conversations and lessons.
Discover the signals of virtual presence, with a focus on harnessing voice, pace, gesture, posture, and breathing for impact via phone and webcam.
Communicate with intention, aligning emotions, vocal presence, energy, and message, to ensure messages land and get the desired effect.

Learn the fundamentals for building relationships and engaging your audience in a remote teaching environment
Learn methods of listening that build authentic connection and trust in the remote environment.
Explore best practices for facilitating effective virtual lessons.
Discover ways to use the tools of technology to engage and include students.
Employ strategies for setting a code of behavior in the virtual classroom.
Learn how to manage difficult or disruptive students.

Create an action plan
Support learning transfer by planning to apply new skills to future communication situations with creation of SMART goals.

Real Results.

“Extremely relevant for our virtual world we are living in. Great course!”

Program Participant

Teaching in a Virtual Classroom

Upon completion of Teaching in a Virtual Classroom, participants will be able to

engage and build relationships with remote colleagues and students more effectively
develop stronger vocal and webcam presence to signal confidence and engagement
apply techniques to manage remote classroom behavior
learn best practices for presenting information in the virtual environment in a way that engages virtual audiences.