What makes an excellent online teacher?

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Excellent online teaching isn’t based on the ability to navigate a Zoom room or create a Google doc. Excellent teaching happens through teacher decision-making — how teachers decide to respond to and engage with students, select curriculum materials, organize learning and use communication strategies. In this session, we explore how teacher decisions in both planning and practice impact student learning in the online environment.


~ Dr Rhona Bondie


Over the last year, schools have faced significant challenges to effective teaching and learning. Sometimes with no notice, teachers have had to teach their classes fully or partly online. And they have met that challenge with professionalism, creativity and skill. As a result, the whole teaching and learning community has learnt so much more about remote learning.


Cambridge International has organised a schools conference through a series of programmes, where we will hear from academics and consultants and the teachers and school leaders who have been at the forefront of developing new pedagogies for teaching and learning. This will include how we can make the best use of technology but will set this in a wider context of remote learning for schools. We will discuss ideas together, and consider what this means for education once the pandemic is over.


As part of CSC online 2021, watch Dr Rhonda Bondie explore how teacher decisions in both planning and practice impact student learning in the online environment.





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