The paper suggests ways to benefit student learning online by improving staff training. The paper challenges the assumption that classroom based pedagogy applies to online teaching, with alternative ways that resolve the stress and confusion during the pandemic. The paper is the ‘front end”, a summary guide to online teaching written after creating 25 practical video resources during June-December 2020, that demonstrate well-tried creative methods used in BBC School Radio.
The paper considers solutions using the unwritten pedagogy - ‘The Knowledge’ in the making of education radio broadcasts: embedded in self-awareness and self-assessment training of teachers in the BBC School Radio Department, evolved between 1935 and 1996.
The argument is that HE lecturers can become more creative if they: inform educate and entertain, replace declarative lecturing with a conversational style, say goodbye to ‘engagement’ and stop fighting the enemy. Students will learn more and the mental health of everyone concerned will improve too.
The author makes the training explicit. As one of a handful of experts he had the privilege of working with colleagues, who freely shared their experience in an atmosphere of creative commitment to learning and he shares these ideas with you, in this 33 page paper:
Solutions in terms of: the physical organisation of the lecturer’s home online studio; personal presence online; and ways to refine spoken English skills for a memorable student learning experience. See Appendix 3, Appendix 5
Illustrates in practical examples how they can be achieved in videos of tradecraft, that raise the teacher’s self-awareness and self-assessment. See Appendix 4.
Adapts the national standard peer observation form, and an online T&L lesson planner to demonstrate the potential for better online teaching. See Appendix 1, 2. Demonstrates new software that sets up online T&L Lesson planner content quickly.
All backed by the extensive125 page Working documents and Production notes, that demonstrates the real way to scaffold online learning.
45˚ Learning (Trade Mark applied for) brings together the author’s BBC training, online teaching, and reflection on the project to gather examples of School Radio broadcasts and publications for the British Library Radio Archive
