The online classroom is a different environment than the traditional one. As a result, students can be distracted by their surroundings and often find it difficult to focus on the lesson at hand. However, teachers can utilize strategies to help students maintain attention and stay engaged in class.
This blog post will provide you with five strategies for maintaining student attention in your virtual classroom: self-checking, group work, teaching with enthusiasm, short lessons, and engaging activities/lectures. In addition, this guide should give you some helpful tips when trying to keep your students focused during lessons.
Ways to keep students engaged in online learning
It is no secret that attention spans are shrinking, and the average person can only focus on one thing for a short period of time. Unfortunately, it seems as if technology has played a huge role in this phenomenon, and it will continue to do so with the way things are going. Therefore, we must be creative and think outside of the box to combat this issue when designing our classrooms. As educators, we need to find ways to keep students engaged without depending solely on new technologies or flashy visuals (although those may help).
One strategy I’ve found success with is creating an atmosphere of openness where students feel comfortable asking questions, giving input, and sharing their feelings about what they’re learning. This fosters critical thinking skills.
You know you’ve been a teacher for too long when your students are more interested in their phones than the lesson you’re teaching. So how can we keep our students focused?
You have been teaching for too long when your students are more interested in their phones than what you’re trying to teach them. I’ll be discussing how to keep those pesky kids from getting distracted and paying attention during class time.
Keep students engaged in remote learning
When teaching in a virtual classroom, it can be not easy to maintain your students’ attention. Here are some strategies that may help:
- understand what type of learner they are and design activity accordingly
- use interactive activities such as quizzes, polls, games, or surveys to keep them engaged
- consider having students work with other classmates on projects or assignments to have someone else to work with outside of class time.
It is not easy to maintain student attention in the virtual classroom. One strategy you can use is to make videos about your favorite topics, which will help engage students with different viewpoints and interests. Another strategy that works well for me is to encourage the class to brainstorm questions during an activity or lecture beforehand to answer them after watching a video on the topic. What strategies do you find work best for you?
