Education in our current times has inevitably changed due to countless factors– mainly the ongoing pandemic. Students and teachers are not experiencing school life like their precedents have 3 years ago when all teaching was done physically on campus. Now, students and teachers are left in a big new world of digital and remote schooling to navigate. But is it the same as the old-school way of teaching?
Teachers and students alike are facing new challenges as they are set to teach and learn in these new circumstances. Online and hybrid schooling is the new norm. Teachers especially have found themselves trying to get accustomed to this new system of teaching without their innate ability to distinguish whether a student is doing well scholarly or not by just observing them in a suitable setting. They are left with half their skills left on the shelf. But with the new Microsoft Teams Student Support Spotlight, teachers are given an invisible helper and a way to read the room without the confines of the physical world.
Student Support Spotlight uses digital engagement patterns of an entire class, as well as individual students, to notify the teacher of signs of disengagement. It aims to help the educator know the potential extra needs of students and guide their already innate abilities to know their students to further learn what the student requires for bettering their education.
Moreover, Student Support Spotlight will be able to aid educators in helping the students reach their full potential by paying more attention to their attitude towards learning. When a respectable educator knows a student is falling behind or not participating as they should be, they will immediately find a solution to that problem by giving the student extra work, extra attention, and an extra push. Student Support Spotlight will supply that.
This addition of digital transformation to online schooling is an innovative step toward improving the student’s educational pursuits and an educator’s process of teaching. It also paves the way toward further perfecting remote and hybrid teaching. It is well on its way to having all the merits of physical teaching done safely at the comfort of one’s home when schooling cannot be done physically.
In closing, we can’t help what comes our way, but we can control how we deal with it. We didn’t ask for schooling to be done remotely because of a pandemic, but we can make the best out of it and make sure it has the benefits of the physical school even though it is done remotely. That is how Student Support Spotlight came to be. After all, necessity is the mother of invention and this addition is a necessity well handled.
