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" the potential of VS to individually personalize schooling"
 " Although a major reason students engage in VS is to get access to advance placement options, flexible time and place benefits inherent in many VS courses make possible credit recovery that enables students from the other end of the spectrum to complete coursework and graduate from high school."
"" Online learning can also serve an important educational access opportunity for students who are placebound or displaced "
" Virtual schooling requires substantial shifts in teachers’ roles and necessitates distributing responsibilities for providing an educational experience among host school participants and VS providers."
" In a common approach to VS, the virtual classroom includes a teacher and groups of students who are distributed among two or more distant schools. The teacher may have a local class as well. Rather than meeting in a traditional classroom, the teacher and students communicate and share resources using digital technologies (e.g., e-mail, videoconferencing, and a learning management system such as Blackboard or Moodle). At each remote school, an on-site facilitator liaises with administrators and parents to support students in each school, and an instructional technology coordinator supports students’ technical needs. The distant VS teacher is typically a practicing teacher in a different school or district, who also receives support from his or her own local administrator and instructional technology support person. Many VS teachers work in collaboration with course designers who help develop course Web sites and materials, or they adapt an existing course shell. "
" Educational teamwork is common in K–12 schools and becomes even more essential for high-quality VS."
"VS teachers need to be highly organized and include comprehensive informational materials if they are to provide appropriate levels of structure in the course and in individual activities to meet their VS students’ needs. Furthermore, they must be able to effectively use a wide variety of communication tools  in ways that provide students with opportunities to participate fully in activities and stay on task."
" Full participation includes teacherstudent communication without developing overdependence, assessing student work and providing timely feedback, and peer collaboration. Good teachers develop social presence in their virtual classrooms, creating a supportive and welcoming environment that allows for the wider variation in student ability and experiences that comes with a dispersed student population. The teacher must be actively involved in monitoring and engaging students in discussions and self study, clarifying instructions, and providing multiple opportunities for engagement through multiple media to achieve course objectives, to alleviate the isolation of students, and to resolve students’ misconceptions of course content and related activities." 
USE THIS FOR BULLET POINTS FOR JOB POSTING!!!]]> 2020-09-12 18:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/wvalexanderg1/xy4lzk4b7x23m0ka/wish/741158781 wvalexanderg1 https://padlet.com/wvalexanderg1/xy4lzk4b7x23m0ka/wish/741187037 "The majority of K–12 online teachers reported having a positive overall experience
and shared a number of benefits, including not having to deal with the frustrating aspects of the traditional classroom such as classroom management."
"one teacher described her experience
as “wonderful,” citing the ability to work with student individually and to actually
“teach”:
My experience with online teaching can be described as wonderful! I
love teaching online. I am able to work with students on an individual
level. I can assist them at the level they need."
MY COMMENTARY FCPS Online Campus:
"Another teacher described the experience as “challenging,” in a frustrated
tone:
My experience with online teaching can be described as...challenging.
I don’t believe that the role of an online teacher has been
defined at this time. For example, high school teachers are often
expected to carry student loads far and above that that would be
allowed in a traditional classroom––especially at the high school
level––because the technology can replace certain roles a traditional
teacher fills. However, individualized communication with these students
is disproportionate to the time a traditional teacher spends in
communication."
"My experience with online teaching can be described as a learning
experience! I have learned so much about computers/software/trouble-
shooting. I would have never thought I could do so much on a
computer. If you had asked me 8 years ago to even try to complete
some of the work I now do I would have been flabbergasted! So, I
learn and the students learn and we try to keep it educational, but
still fun. This is a great teaching environment for teachers who are
self-motivated, willing to learn, and who are good with doing a lot
of work independently."
"My experience with online teaching can be described as very similar
to the traditional teaching experience: students still have the same
issues, colleagues are still helpful and cooperative, and administrators
are still harried and demanding. Differences are: online students are
more prone to procrastination––I had to develop new methods for
keeping them moving; plagiarizing is easier for students––I have to
be more aware of the possibility of copying and pasting; technical
problems are more of an issue––students are directed to technical
help either at their local school or the virtual high school staff; students
think a computer-based course will be easier––I have an extensive
syllabus that dispels that notion at the outset." Keep it real- I can relate!  ALready have kids logging in and then disappearing.
USE THIS FOR JOB POSTING AND FOR BLOG REFLECTION RE: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE/HOPES/FEARS FOR THIS YEAR!]]> 2020-09-12 19:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/wvalexanderg1/xy4lzk4b7x23m0ka/wish/741187037 wvalexanderg1 https://padlet.com/wvalexanderg1/xy4lzk4b7x23m0ka/wish/741205394 Video 1/Likes- Flexibility, Reflection, Different Viewpoints, esp working with other teachers.
Video 2/Challenges- Organization, tracking at the beginning, Assessing learning and communicating where students are so they don't fall behind, 
Video 3/Typical Day- check email first thing, daily structure for e-learning course (check logins, engagement, check assignments, discussion boards, evaluating/assessing), planning and setting things up in the course,
Video 4/Like teaching online- change in energy, more motivated students
Video 5/ Differences- ability/opportunity to engage with ALL students, more individual communication/engagement]]> 2020-09-12 19:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/wvalexanderg1/xy4lzk4b7x23m0ka/wish/741205394