Four Roles of an Online Teacher

Social Director, Program Manager, Technician, Instructor

List the Four Roles of an Online Teacher from Your Weakest to Strongest

What Skills Do I Need to Gain or Strengthen?

How I Will Gain The Skills? *For all four of the online teacher roles, one of the main ways I plan to improve is to stay in close collaboration with my colleagues to get fresh ideas and insight from seeing how they meet these 4 roles.

Program Manager

I have been guilty in the past of setting the tone to casual, and not establishing rigid guidelines of interaction. In many ways I feel that this is one of my strongest and yet I have enormous room for improvement. This course has alerted me to using technology more strategically and formatively. While Im very confident in my ability to stimulate interaction among students individually and in groups in a face to face setting, I feel like a newbie when it comes to doing the same thing online. Managing discussions, forums, synchronous and asynchronous interactions online is new to me.

As I plan further ahead, I will give more thought to clearly establishing purpose, communicating procedures and assessment criteria. I will try using the helicopter overview. My one big takeaway here is to give more thought to what formative information I am getting back from online activities and how the students can use my feedback in inform their learning. I plan to use both formal and informal online communications. If I clearly separate the two, then I can establish the professional tone and rigor while also allowing the students and my personality to come through. The other big piece is to set a schedule and routine for myself to give timely feedback in discussions, forums, etc.

Technician

Social Director

Instructor

My skills at facilitating the learning of the students I liked and plan to use the high flyer options in face to face and online is where Im most confident. my blended courses. I should continue to increasingly challenge students creativity, interaction, and learning on line.