Selecting,+Training,+mentoring,+Evaluating,+and+Retaining+Online+Teachers

Georgia Virtual School, Jamie Sachs, Program Coordinator Qualities of Teachers Application - How do you identify these people? Interview - conducted on Elluminate Inteview Training Teacher Support Professional Development Evaluations Online Teaching Endorsement jssachs@doe.k12.ga.us Sue Steiner - consultant for Kiel eSchool Modeled basically on Florida Virtual School Develop a profile of successful online teachers to give to people who are seeking teachers Attend a Florida Virtual School Course Development Workshop Webinar Sources Do we want to work on a handbook for online teachers? SharePoint Site? Do we want to get into the business of searching for teacher candidates? Put links on website? The Virtual Observation
 * Compassionate
 * Work with minimal supervision
 * Patient
 * Sense of Humor
 * Risk-taker, willing to experiment
 * Content knowledge
 * What programs do you use on a regular basis and how do you use them?
 * List 3 websites that you used in your classroom instruction and how do you use them?
 * What is the most difficult concept in the curriculum you teach? What do you do to mhelp students master this concept?
 * Describe the actions you tiik to improve your abilities or knowledge in your last position.
 * What's the best thing that ever happened to you in education?
 * Ten week training course - analogous to our pedagogy training; lots of scenarios with feedback; lesson evaluation and creation; developing your online voice; lead an Elluminate session
 * Practice Course - platform training
 * Teacher Forum
 * Student Teaching - they take over at the end of the course they are working in
 * Full year of supervised teaching with a coach (paid position, interdisciplinary, support, professional development)
 * Required Professional Development
 * 24/7 Technical Supprt
 * Manual
 * Limit enrollment based on ability of teacher
 * Teacher Copy Center
 * Automated administrative tasks to take pressure off teachers
 * Twice-yearly Mandatory Retreat (total of 3 days)
 * Webinars - One-hour sessions, 10 gives you one Professioinal Learning Unit
 * Coffee Talk - kind of a chat room on announced topic
 * Timely Training - Coaches will do this for "on-time" topics
 * Pre-conferences
 * Setting annual goals
 * Observations with Checklists - Department chairs observe on a rotation among classes and teachers
 * Teacher Evaluation Rubric
 * Parent and Student Surveys are considered
 * Three online courses
 * FLVS
 * NACOL
 * eLern
 * Current announcements?
 * Emal responses within 24 hours
 * Positive tone to emails and pages?
 * Phone log?
 * Current syllabus and pace chart
 * Does the teacher archive chats?
 * Required progress reports?
 * Assignments graded within 48 hours