Blended Learning: Benefits For Teachers
Teaching has to be the most impactful profession in this world considering how influential it can be in a person’s life. From a very young age, children are shaped and guided by teachers aside from their primary caretakers and home environment. A student-teacher connection is invaluable. So, it is of utmost importance to ensure the quality of teachers and their well-being.
Like in any other profession, teaching is also subjected to various transitions. From a teacher-centered, passive classroom to a student-centered, active classroom, the approach is undergoing great transformations. These transformations are still in progress as it requires systematic planning, well-defined goals, proper training and guidance. And teachers are important elements in this change.
Recently, there has been a hike in the number of teachers quitting their teaching profession. Worldwide, teachers are facing varying stressors including heavy workloads, poor pay, lesson planning, assessments, inappropriate working environments, problems with co-workers, coping with novelty, inadequate skills to adapt to the changing learning environment, and pressures from the side of management and authorities, being held responsible for a student’s failure, conflicts with the duties and responsibilities, politics before people, professional exhaustion, disciplinary issues from the side of the students, and the list goes on.
Benefits of Blended Learning for Teachers
Studies have established that blended learning enhances students’ interest, academic achievement and intrinsic motivation. Blended learning promotes conceptual learning. Teachers can assign group activities, conduct quizzes, use video recordings, and online coursework utilizing effective learning management systems that can ease their job.
Bring down workload
Teachers are stuffed with heavy workloads other than taking classes and assessments in the form of paper works, projects which will eventually hamper their engagement with students, and a negative attitude towards teaching itself. Blended learning helps to manage these workloads effectively with the help of technology.
Flexible time and space
One greater advantage of Blended Learning is that instructors can take classes from anywhere and at any time. We have established platforms like Zoom and Google Meet where we can conduct synchronous and asynchronous classes.
Integrating different learning styles
As we know, Blended Learning is not just a mixing up of Online and Offline Classes. It constitutes different learning styles like the Flipped classroom method, Station-rotation model, Project-based learning, Mastery-based learning, etc. This can help teachers in fostering student engagement and improve the quality of teaching itself.
Helps in conceptual learning
Conceptual learning is an important approach to education that enables a deeper understanding as well as fosters practical knowledge of both students and teachers.
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Improves quality of teaching and learning
Blended Learning is technology-enhanced learning. This provides teachers with a platform to gain technical knowledge and upgrade their technical skills. Thereby, equipping them to face the technical revolutions happening in the educational sector.
Lessens stress
Post-pandemic period has witnessed a huge rise in teachers quitting their profession out of burnout. We have already mentioned the many stressors encountered by teachers above. Blended learning is an apt solution to strengthen our teachers and improve their work satisfaction and work-life balance.
Individualized learning
The current education system is not accepting individual differences in a class. A teacher has to manage an average of 30 to 35 students in a class. It is obvious that a teacher can’t give individual attention to each and every student in the classroom. Classes are delivered by following an average pace. Here, students above the average level are left with inadequate resources to up-skill them, and those below the average level are left with inadequate resources to boost their performance. This results in poor learning outcomes. Blended learning enables individualized learning, thereby reducing the wastage of resources.
With Blended Learning, we can ensure a teacher-friendly healthy learning environment where their presence adds more meaning and positive influence to a learner’s life. It requires teachers to have a positive and challenging attitude towards technology-enhanced learning. As we are living in a tech-oriented world, incorporating technology into our learning is very crucial to teach effectively, evaluate and make assessments accurately and understand the needs and interests of students. Many teachers faced troubles during the pandemic when the offline classes got completely shifted to online platforms. It was an unprecedented challenge and teachers were not equipped with the necessary technical skills. And the shift didn’t compromise with the quantity of syllabus which in fact gave them intractable pressure.
There is a notion among some teachers that technology can replace the teacher’s roles but the reality is that teachers are the driving force behind the technology that can guide and facilitate individual students. As we know today’s children are tomorrow’s future, let’s ensure that our teachers are futuristic and technically equipped to accompany them and steer them in the right direction.
About the Author
Sherin P.?is a psychologist and the R&D specialist at?Blend-Ed Edtech Pvt. Ltd.?The brainchild of a team of educationalists and technologists who believe in science-backed learning, Blend-Ed steps early into the futuristic blended learning system, envisioning a fundamental change in the prevailing conventional teaching and learning cultures.
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