Prompt: How can you adjust your planned learning activities to meet the needs of your learners if an unexpected event occurs? (for example, a pandemic arises and many of your employees must now work from home – how will you ensure that they can still do their jobs? What training will they need, and how will you deliver it, knowing they must remain at home?) This is a common discussion thread right now as many schools and universities have made the switch to teaching online.
In the case of an unexpected event happening, both education and work needs to continue and will need to be accessible for everyone. My group decide to make our entire planned interactive learning resources and activities to be displayed online with direct instruction. With this being said, each of us would have to have the ability to use internet, the ability to work online and as well as access to a device. As the instructors we would provide the learners with all of the tools that they need in order to complete the class such as, online lectures, videos, assignments and recordings of the lectures.
As someone that struggled with online school at the start of the pandemic we have taken this issue into consideration. A possible suggestion for this could be to offer different options for one assignment. Students could decide if they want to present their work in a written format or in a video format. Providing students with different options is a great way to make everyone comfortable as everyone learns in different ways. By providing learners with different tasks such as blog prompts, quizzes, reflecting on videos watched, and hands on activates, we can ensure that learners are receiving a variety of information by engaging with different resources.
As a teacher candidate it is important to constantly adapt our teaching ways to ensure that our learning methods are accessible and helpful to students. If these two key things aren’t being met in a classroom, students will not be set up for success and in result will have a hard time and struggle.