J. V. Boettcher: Best Practices For Online Credit Recovery

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Best Practices for Online Teaching

Online credit recovery is becoming a variable assets for high schools across the country. It is important for schools to maintain a level of success for both their creditability standing within their state and they have a responsibility to educate their students and ensure they receive a high school diploma. Through online credit recovery programs courses, academic credits and support toward a diploma. Can be achieved. In my district, this program is fairly new and after speaking with the administrators that oversee this program, I have learned that after about four years, they feel they have a very good program and crafted it a little different so the students were not going at it

J.V. Boettcher Ph.D. offers a quick guide for the Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online. Boettcher shares the ten best practices and what works well in online teaching and learning. Research and experience suggest that these practices contribute to an effective, efficient and satisfying teaching and learning experience for both faculty and students. Using these practices can help develop confidence, comfort, and experience in teaching online.

Many authors express that a course design and teaching must be guided by quality standards and functional design is very important to the online learning experience. Analyze the characteristics and learning styles of the potential online students in your online course. Orellana, A., Hudgins, T. L., & Simonson, M. (2009). The Perfect Online Course: Best Practices for Designing and Teaching give examples of how to develop and evaluate instructional materials appropriate to the online learning

There are many tabs, such as scheduling, student demographics, state reporting data, teacher’s grade books, attendance data, transcripts and others that can be customized. The strengths of PowerSchool is that they offer many customization functions. Customize reports for research or reporting purposes can be generated, as well as customize screen setup for staff, parent, and student viewers. One limitation to PowerSchool is that the not everyone has the same edit and viewing rights. These rights have to be customized and given by leadership. Another, web based school management resource is Realtime has many features for teachers and administration. Realtime software has all the student’s information. Teachers and leadership can view student contact information, IEP’s, 504’s, nurse’s notes, discipline problems, and food services. Teachers are able to type their lesson plans and click on the standards. Teachers can share lesson plans so the grade level and special area teachers can view them. Realtime is also a gradebook. For leadership can view lesson plans and grades in real time. Parents and students can access Realtime using Parent Portal. Parent Portal has all of the student’s grades. A very popular resource in the state of New Jersey is Genesis. This platform can be accessed by parents, teachers and administrators. The biggest asset is the amount