Complexity + Order make this seaweed beautiful. Your online lessons should have this same layered design so that your teaching really STICKS (by that I mean it gets your students to the finish line).
Here's the formula for making effective online teaching lessons. You'll incorporate 4 teaching approaches.
1️⃣ LECTURE
The first teaching approach is lecture. This is the part of teaching where you’re conveying principles and concepts that your student needs to know. When I’m teaching scrapbooking, LECTURE is where I explain a design principle. I might start by teaching that continuance is a Gestalt principle. This will be a bunch of words and explanation. And I could lose people. They could struggle with understanding what this Gestalt continuance thing is.
2️⃣ DEMO
In my best teaching, I’ll immediately follow that up with DEMO. That’s showing the student what I mean. In this example: how to use continuance themselves. I'll show layouts that use it and explain how it's working. .
Even if you don’t have physical examples to demonstrate with, you can tell stories and talk through illustrations. That can be your demo.
3️⃣ PRACTICE and/or IMPLEMENTATION
A third aspect of teaching is providing your students with guidance and opportunities for practice or implementation. Just because it’s obvious to you what they should now do to put your lesson to work, it isn’t always obvious to them. So explicitly give assignments and next steps.
4️⃣ ROADMAPS
Finally, ROADMAPS are tools to provide with your lessons that ease your student’s implementation. These can be Quick guides. Checklists, worksheets.
⭐ Now put it to work for yourself. Which of these 4 approaches are you already using? Which will you be adding in?