This four-session course prepares educators to be onsite or offsite mentors for virtual school students and to provide them with the skills and techniques to effectively support the online students in their charge. It includes an introduction to the virtual course environment, an overview to the diverse learning needs of the online student, and specific training in the skills and techniques needed to effectively support students participating in online courses.
This four-session course prepares students to be successful online learners by familiarizing them with the course environment used in a virtual school. It provides an overview to the requirements and responsibilities of the online student, including guidelines for course participation and credit, technical requirements and skills, and basic netiquette.
Content and Technology Integration Workshops. Participants are also eligible to deliver a selection of online professional development workshops to their colleagues from ETLO’s catalog of professional development workshops focused on content and technology integration. These workshops can provide critical professional development for instructors of virtual school courses. Some examples of the ETLO workshops are: Finding the Best Educational Resources on the Web; Special Students in Regular Classrooms: Technology, Teaching and Universal Design; Using Technology to Support Literacy in the Upper Elementary Classroom; Transforming the Classroom with Project-Based Learning; and Using Technology to Model and Analyze Real Data in the Math Classroom.
