- 1). Understand your students. Before approaching your lesson, you must understand your students, as well as the material you will be teaching them. You might consider providing one or two remedial classes if there are certain subjects with which your students have particular difficulty (for example, fractions or exponents). Because of the online nature of the class, you can offer this option to whoever wishes to take advantage of it.
- 2). Choose your subjects. While your school may have predetermined your curriculum, you may have some flexibility as well as to what you are teaching. The best online math classes will focus on very particular, specific, and well-delineated subjects. Picking a subject like number properties and stating it at the beginning of the class will help focus your students on the topics at hand.
- 3). Break the subject down into lessons and sub-lessons. With larger subjects such as calculus, it can be difficult to know where to start. Breaking your subject down into particular lessons, like those stated above, will make the subject more approachable for your students. Similarly, creating sub-lessons, in which you focus on particular aspects of a topic makes students less intimidated by what can be complicated math topics.
- 4). Create a presentation. Using the subject outline you created, make a presentation for the material using a compatible format. Most programs, such as Adobe presentations, will allow you to use PowerPoint software (which comes in Microsoft Office software packs).
- 5). Anticipate student questions. Because you are not just teaching a math class but also inviting discussions about your topic, you will want to have some idea of where students will have problems with the material you are presenting and anticipate answering their questions. In case they don't have any questions for you, come up with a list of questions you can ask them to ensure that they have truly mastered the material.
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