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Back **What does exemplary teaching online look like?** media type="custom" key="6702851" Recording: @https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-11-16.1333.M.F0DCEB1CCD961521F107BCAAF41E76.vcr //This presentation will demonstrate how discourse analysis was used to investigate the literacy and structure of an online classroom. The researcher captured "world class" instances of online instruction by recording the interactions of instructors with their online students. The cyber school studied was formed in 2001 to research and develop asynchronous instructional strategies. The research in this study is part of a yearlong project with Pennsylvania's best cyber school and Penn State.//

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Online teaching still in infant stages; we do not have best practices and research on online teaching standards. There are no standards for online teaching. The first attempt to address online teaching standards will occur next month.

Funding--built pay system on Hay Points
 * bachelors w/ certification 308 pts
 * with cert 342 pts
 * masters with cert 382 pts
 * 97% hqt

Best Practices--teacher quality if most important when it comes to student achievement.

CA research
 * teachers lack of funds of knowledge
 * anytime/anywhere schools
 * LMS must work--if there are tech issues, students will become disengaged and teacher will have to work harder
 * student progress--who is responsibility for student accountability
 * discourse analysis
 * video analysis
 * teacher interaction
 * methods of checking for understanding
 * 21st Century Cyber Charter ha--meets AYP, teachers are full time and on site 5 days a week but can earn the right to work from home, teachers developed own curriculum but first began with online providers
 * asynchronous school
 * chemistry teachers from f2f classrooms
 * philosophy--relativism and constructivism
 * used video analysis to look for interactions between teacher/student to identify exemplary online teaching
 * taped 4 hours of online chemistry teaching, developed a coding scheme and then coded them
 * Moodle--teachers create async sessions. both teachers teaching the same class at the same time
 * use Elluminate
 * kids need an identity in an online class
 * rubric for scoring all from chats to whiteboards to assignments
 * developed a tiered compensation model
 * tier 1 is a 3 year apprenticeship; released from the program if all competencies are not complete at the end of the 3 years
 * tier 2 is regular teachers
 * tier 3 master/exemplary teacher
 * virtual offices open from 9-4 and again 6-8 at night for kids to jump in at their convenience
 * self paced--asynchronous
 * classes are recorded
 * kids like online socialization--chat, play games, etc.
 * no lectures
 * must be interactive
 * practices are not correlated to achievement--too bad
 * have a goal of 80/80
 * classes are aligned to standards
 * use benchmarks to monitor progress

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Similar research base and approach here as we took in BC looking at Quality. Check out my presentation site for more on the topic: http://vss2009.wikispaces.com/labonte

Randy LaBonte

[mkb] Blog entry I posted about this session available at []

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