When it comes to teacher presence one thing I must balance out is the quantity and the quality of my feedback. Excellent feedback; in my opinion, is the most important aspect of education when it comes to student achievement and satisfaction with the teacher and the course. In the past I have found myself inconsistent. Some days I was able to give a great quanitity of quality feedback and on others I was forced to shorten my feedback because of time constraints. I want to achieve more balance in this area because I know that when dealing with anyone, especially young people, being inconsistent on important topics is dangerous. Student satisfaction with the teacher and the course will go way down and my ability to teach will be compromised.

My issue is time and I have been steadily creating more time as my organization and design has improved. My courses are more clayed out before hand giving me more time to focus on giving feedback. This also allows for me to facilitate more since my overall goals are more clear.

The development (chunking) of this online course and the class readings has given me more insight on how to be better prepared for the year by allowing me to put into practice the sitting down and preparing of an entire course before I teach it. For an online course I at first thought that it was more necessary for an online teacher to have there course completely planned before they began, but I now believe it is just as important in the F2F class. I only wish I had this kind of practice overall design as a rookie, but as a new teacher I was still unsure of how to teach and what worked. Even if I did plan ahead it was often changed dramatically. As this organization and design develops I find much more ability in forming a better class community.

Jarrod (4)