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Scott Schnipke

National Center for Education Information - 2 views

www.ncei.com/Alt-Teacher-Cert.htm

AL Overview

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  • What officially began in the early 1980s as ways to ward off projected shortages of teachers, alternative routes to teacher certification have become major players in the production of highly qualified teachers.
  • Clearly, alternative routes to teaching are bringing non-traditional populations of people into the teaching profession who want to help young people develop and teach where the demands for teachers are greatest.
  • Few innovations in American education have spawned more controversy and debate than the alternative teacher certification movement, and few have ultimately resulted in more positive changes.
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  • The most significant variable in driving the alternative teacher certification movement forward is this changing market for teaching.
  • Good alternative teacher certification programs are market-driven. The programs are designed specifically to meet the demand for teachers in geographic areas and in subject areas where the demand for teachers is greatest. Prospective teachers are recruited to meet those specific demands
  • Nearly all of the states now have some type of alternative to going back to college and majoring in education in order to become a teacher.
  • The bottom line is the nation is hiring -- and is projected to need to hire -- approximately 45,000 newly minted teachers per year.
  • While criticisms of alternative teacher certification continue among a small band of educational researchers, the criticisms are based more on lack of definition, faulty data and biases than on actual facts.
  • The bottom line is there is a demand for high quality teachers in certain subject areas in select parts of this country. There is a huge population of non-traditional candidates -- life experienced adults from many walks of life -- who want to meet that demand.
  • Alternative routes to teacher certification are having a major impact on many aspects of the teaching occupation in the United States. More men, more non-whites, more mature, life-experienced, educated individuals are teaching in the nation’s K-12 schools as a result of a proliferation of alternative routes to teacher certification throughout the country.
  • Scott Schnipke on 15 Sep 11
     
    AL overview
Spencer Genson

Ohio Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification - TheApple.com - 2 views

theapple.monster.com/...outes-to-teacher-certification

AL certification Teacher alternative

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  • Applicant must complete six semester hours (or the equivalent) of professional education coursework within the past five years with a GPA of 2.5, and from a college or university approved to prepare teachers, as follows: three hours in teaching methods, including field experience, and three hours in developmental characteristics of adolescent youths;
    • Spencer Genson
      Spencer Genson on 22 Sep 11
       
      The candidate is required to take education classes in a time frame after they apply to receive their alternative license.
  • License (two-year non-renewable) is issued on verification of employment by superintendent of school district; Employing school district agrees to provide a structured mentoring program.
    • Spencer Genson
      Spencer Genson on 22 Sep 11
       
      New teacher recieves temorary license. The school distric is responsible for making sure that the "teacher" is on track to get the necessary schooling done to achieve permanant teaching license.
  • Applicant must complete two years of teaching under the alternative license;
    • Spencer Genson
      Spencer Genson on 22 Sep 11
       
      Cannot receive the teaching licensure until they have taught with their alternative license for dos años.
Spencer Genson

What Is Required to Receive an Alternative Teaching License in Ohio? | eHow.com - 1 views

www.ehow.com/ive-teaching-license-ohio.html

AL certification alternative requirements

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  • The program enables individuals to begin teaching while continuing to work toward the requirements of the provisional educator license, which is the standard license in Ohio.
    • Spencer Genson
      Spencer Genson on 20 Sep 11
       
      This shows that alternative teachers must continue to work towards the requirements neceassry to teach in the state of Ohio.
  • If you are applying for licensure in social studies, integrated language arts or integrated science, you will need to have 60 credit hours of coursework in the content area. In some cases, work experience may substitute for courses.
    • Spencer Genson
      Spencer Genson on 20 Sep 11
       
      60 hours of course work would be very beneficial. I also like the idea of exchanging work experience for course credit. I think that the work experience should have to be in the field of education.
  • This instruction must include supervised field experience
    • Spencer Genson
      Spencer Genson on 20 Sep 11
       
      Supervised field experience ensures that the candidate is being held accountable for his/her work in the classroom.
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  • eacher candidates must have three semester hours of instruction in teaching methods.
  • You also will need to pass the Praxis II exam, Principles of Learning and Teaching: Grades 7-12.
    • Spencer Genson
      Spencer Genson on 20 Sep 11
       
      Candidate must pass the Praxis II as a normal teacher does.
  • Spencer Genson on 15 Sep 11
     
    Gives a description of the requirements necessary for an alternative licensure OH.
Spencer Genson

Alternative Educator License Program - 0 views

www.cehs.wright.edu/...index.php

AL program license

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  • Spencer Genson on 15 Sep 11
     
    Wright State University's program for alternative licensure.
Brianna Shaw

Alternative Teacher Certification - 3 views

www.teach-now.org/intro.cfm

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  • Alternative routes to teacher certification are state-defined routes through which an individual who already has at least a bachelor’s degree can obtain certification to teach without necessarily having to go back to college and complete a college, campus-based teacher education program.
    • Scott Schnipke
      Scott Schnipke on 20 Sep 11
       
      Definition of alternative licensing.
  • One-third of current state alternative routes to teacher certification have been created since 2000. More than half of them have been established in the last 15 years.
    • Brianna Shaw
      Brianna Shaw on 27 Sep 11
       
      here is a statistic!!!
  • Scott Schnipke on 15 Sep 11
     
    AL Introduction
Brianna Shaw

ODE - Alternative Resident Educator License for World Languages (grades P-12) - 2 views

education.ohio.gov/...ODEDetail.aspx

AL languages

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  • bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education; 30 semester (45 quarter) hours in the world language to be taught with a 2.5 GPA or higher consisting of coursework well distributed across the subject area,
  • Successful completion
  • (IPTI)
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  • Completion of 6 semester hours of professional education coursework, from a college or university that is approved to prepare teachers
    • Brianna Shaw
      Brianna Shaw on 22 Sep 11
       
      Not fair! thats like nothingn compared to what we have to do!
  • Evaluation Request Application for an Alternative Resident Educator License
  • Alternative Resident Educator License Application
  • NOTE:  In the second year of teaching under the alternative resident educator license, the educator must take one of the following Praxis II Principles of Learning and Teaching exams: 0521, 0522, 0523 or 0524.
    • Brianna Shaw
      Brianna Shaw on 22 Sep 11
       
      Although I personally feel that they have the easy way to becomeing a teacher, it is important to not that they still have to take the PRAXIS
  • Brianna Shaw on 15 Sep 11
     
    *languages*
Victoria Zuber

K12 - Review of an Educational Alternative for Figure Skaters K12 Online Distance Schoo... - 3 views

figureskating.about.com/...k12.htm

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  • The quality of the K12 school curriculum is very high.
    • Victoria Zuber
      Victoria Zuber on 22 Sep 11
       
      This could be an opinion rather than a fact.
  • Students are provided with a computer, textbooks, workbooks, and supplies.
    • Victoria Zuber
      Victoria Zuber on 22 Sep 11
       
      This is something important to note, however it doesn't state what the cost would be.
    • Rachel Kennell
      Rachel Kennell on 22 Sep 11
       
      Is it true for all schools or just the one on this website?
  • There is no doubt that the content of the K12 program is excellent
    • Victoria Zuber
      Victoria Zuber on 22 Sep 11
       
      This is clearly an opinion not factual.
    • Kayla Geiger
      Kayla Geiger on 22 Sep 11
       
      I think that this author is using way too many opinions and not fact. I do not know how reliable this author is.
  • Victoria Zuber on 20 Sep 11
     
    This may be a reliable source if we were concentrating on why virtual schooling is good for one set group of people, figure skaters. However I don't think this is the kind of information we need for this project.
  • anonymous on 20 Sep 11
     
    Description: This link is a description of a K-12 online alternative for figure skaters. It shows pros/cons of how this education plan would be good/bad for figure skaters and their families from a 'traveling' perspective.
Scott Schnipke

Alternative Certification Isn't Alternative - 2 views

www.nctq.org/...Alternative_20071113021230.pdf

AL Pro

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  • Brianna Shaw on 22 Sep 11
     
    This webpage changes subjects...probably shouldn't use this too much
Brianna Shaw

TeachNM :: Alternative Licensure Options - 1 views

teachnm.org/...rnative-licensure-options.html

AL

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  • As we enter the 21st Century, the world of education is undergoing significant changes. In the next few years, many teachers, possibly over 2 million nation-wide, who began teaching in the late 1960s and early 1970s will be retiring. It is anticipated that the number of teachers graduating from traditional university teacher education programs will be far short of the number needed to
  • programs
  • place retiring teachers.
Spencer Genson

Alternative Teacher Licensing Program - 2 views

www.cde.state.co.us/...Licensure_alt1_info.asp

AL certification alternative requirements

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  • Has not completed an approved educator preparation program with student teaching.
    • Spencer Genson
      Spencer Genson on 20 Sep 11
       
      The person does not have to complete student teaching, which I think is essential to a teacher's experience. Student teaching provides individuals with learning experiences that will help them in their career as a teacher. People who do not have this experience are lacking some serious educational experience.
  • Candidates must be employed full-time and teach a minimum of 51 percent in the approved content area
  • Spencer Genson on 15 Sep 11
     
    Requirement for the state of Colorado
Sarah Cecire

Glogster - Poster Yourself | Text, Images, Music and Video - 0 views

edu.glogster.com

web2.0 glogster

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  • Sarah Cecire on 20 Oct 10
     
    Educational version of Glogster
  • Sarah Cecire on 20 Oct 10
     
    Fun Web 2.0 tool that can be used as an alternate way of presenting.
Brianna Shaw

Usable Knowledge: No teacher left behind? Good news and bad about new routes to becomin... - 1 views

www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/...DD3-1.html

AL

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  • Alternative certification programs started in the mid-1980s to respond to the teacher shortage.
  • Participants identified five primary areas of concern. Participants commonly felt that they were not adequately prepared to teach the subject for which they were seeking licensure. Participants did not feel that they understood how to teach low-income students of color, who were commonly the students they encountered in their first teaching jobs. Clinical experiences typically involved teaching in a summer school setting. Participants found it difficult to find teaching experiences that were subject-appropriate and mentors who were willing and able to guide them. Statewide programs had the most trouble securing timely jobs for participants due to their lack of partnerships with local school districts. Participants were particularly disappointed about this, as they often viewed the prospect of a secured job as an incentive of their chosen program. Many participants felt they did not receive strong follow-up support on the job, from their fellow teachers and principal.
Brianna Shaw

AL Group - 7 views

I set this up for good use for our group

AL pros cons Pro alternative

started by Brianna Shaw on 17 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Kayla Geiger

virtualschools.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views

www.wested.org/...virtualschools.pdf

Virtual Trends Issues school

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  • Victoria Zuber on 20 Sep 11
     
    This link is a good tool because it shows many graphs that help explain what all is included in Virtual Education and how it is different from a public school.
  • anonymous on 20 Sep 11
     
    Description: This website shows how public schools and online schools differ.
  • Victoria Zuber on 22 Sep 11
     
    Local education agency-based. A large number of local public schools and school districts have created their own virtual schools, mainly to serve their own supplemental or alternative education needs and to reach out to home school populations. They usually employ their own regular certified K-12 teachers, either within the regular course of instruction, or "on the side." - Creating their own online schools may be beneficial for some people in the school district because some students get bullied however don't want to move. Also allows the school district to keep the test scores of those students who choose to do online schooling.
Scott Schnipke

Teachers Count > Current Topics in Educational Policy > Teacher Certification - 1 views

www.teacherscount.org/...index.shtml

AL pros and cons

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  • Unfortunately, most of the research conducted about the relationship between teacher certification and student performance has been inconclusive and, therefore, it is more difficult to cite statistics to prove one side or the other in this debate.
  • A relaxation in teacher certification laws could allow these professionals to enter the education sector more quickly.
  • In the coming years, more and more teachers are planning on retiring and there will be a large deficit in the number of available teachers. Offering alternative routes to teacher certification (such as Teach for America) could encourage more people to pursue a career in education and fill this deficit.
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  • In many private schools, teachers are not required to be certified, but these schools perform as well as or better than public schools where teachers are required to be certified.
  • Certification tests ensure that there is a nationalized or state-wide standard for the teaching profession.
  • Studies have not yet proven that certification requirements are inadequate. Education schooling can instill many important skills in prospective teachers, such as classroom management and lesson plan design.                 
  • Scott Schnipke on 15 Sep 11
     
    AL pros and cons
Britni Dunlap

Ohio's Senate Bill 5 will bring dramatic changes | cleveland.com - 3 views

www.cleveland.com/..._senate_bill_5_will_bring.html

sb5

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  • a collective-bargaining bill that dramatically reduces the power of some 350,000 unionized public workers, including teachers, police officers and firefighters.
  • Collective bargaining: Restricts collective bargaining to wage issues. Under the former law, public workers had a right to collectively bargain for wages, benefits such as health care and pensions and specific workplace conditions, including staffing levels at fire stations or building assignments for teachers. Under the new law most public workers will be able to bargain only on their pay.
  • Safety equipment: Allows police and fire officials to negotiate for safety equipment. This is an exception to the above provision, which was added by the House. It concerns only equipment directly related to the safety of the officer or firefighter, like bulletproof vests and shields. It does not include other equipment, such as computers in squad cars.
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  • Traffic tickets: Prohibits linking patrol officer evaluations to how many citations they write. Patrol officers in some police agencies and the state highway patrol were evaluated and given pay increases, in part, according to how many traffic violations they issued to motorists. That can no longer be a basis for performance evaluation under the new law.
  • Health care: Requires public workers to pay at least 15 percent of their health care coverage. The goal here is to force unionized workers to pay more for their health care costs and thereby lower that expense for local and state governments. Supporters of the law say that private sector workers on average pay about 23 percent of their health care costs.
  • • Merit-based pay for teachers: Ohio's 146,000 primary and secondary school teachers will be evaluated largely based on how their students did on standardized testing along with other more subjective criteria. By April 1 of each year, teachers would be evaluated based on their students' test scores, their licensure level, whether they had achieved "highly qualified" teaching status, at least two 30-minute or more observations of them by administrators as well as other criteria selected by local school boards. Decisions about which teachers are laid off or fired and what kind of pay they would receive would be based on this evaluation process.
  • Pension pickups: Ohio governments cannot offer so called "pension pickups" where the governmental unit pays a portion of the 10 percent employees are supposed to contribute to their pensions. The law does not raise the employee contributions above the standard 10 percent, nor does it reduce the contribution levels of the state as an employer. However, a pension reform bill being considered in the House does increase contributions levels for pensions for teachers, police officers, firefighters and state highway patrolmen. Once again, it is not a part of SB 5.
  • Binding arbitration: Eliminates binding arbitration and creates an alternative allowing contracts in some cases to go to voters if they cost more. If governmental employees in a union cannot reach an agreement with management on a new contract, a fact-finder must be appointed to make recommendations. If a majority of the union members or management reject the fact-finder's recommendations, the legislative body that oversees the government workers (a city council, for example) must hold a vote within 30 days of the current contract expiring to choose between the "last, best" offers of the union and management. If the legislative body chooses to do nothing, the last best offer of management becomes the new contract. In cases where the higher-cost offer is selected by the legislative body, the chief financial officer of the governmental body determines whether new revenue is needed to fulfill the offer that has been chosen. If so, there is a procedure by which signatures can be collected and both "last best" offers placed on the ballot for voters to chose between.
  • Decertification: Makes it easier to end union representation by lowering the percentage of workers needed to trigger such a move. In the past, a majority of employees was needed to back a petition to decertify a union. Now, a vote by only 30 percent of workers is needed.
  • Payroll deductions: Prohibits any public employer from providing a payroll deduction for contributions to a union political action committee without first having written permission from the employee.
  • Dues: Employees who do not want to join a union -- but nonetheless still receive the same wages and benefits spelled out in the union contract -- no longer have to pay "fair share" dues. Fair-share dues are based only on the cost of bargaining a contract and are less than full dues.
  • Strikes: Prohibits public union workers from striking, though workers who strike illegally will not be subjected to jail time because lawmakers dropped proposed contempt of court penalties from an earlier version of the bill.
  • Holly Walter on 20 Sep 11
     
    Explains provisions of SB5
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  • Britni Dunlap on 30 Sep 11
     
    I find it unfair for public workers to pay at least 15% of their heath care just to lower that expense for local and state governments. Teachers will be paid depending on how well their students do on standardized testing. What happens if you have students who are differently abled in your classroom? What if there are students included in your section that you don't even teach? How can you be held accountable for the scores of students who you don't even teach? How can we be paid depending on student test scores when not all students are good test takers? I think a test/assessment does not show everything that a child has learned. I feel this is unfair to teachers. Yes, there are other aspects to deciding on pay but this is a huge part of it.
  • Holly Walter on 01 Oct 11
     
    I completely agree that the practice of assessments is an unfair way to evaluate teacher performance. The only problem is, how can their performances be evaluated? I'm glad that we're making an effort to evaluate teachers, particularly because I questioned the ability of many of my teachers throughout primary and secondary school. How can they be tested on their content knowledge and their effectiveness as teachers? And is it really fair for some teachers to have tenure? I had this teacher in high school that was absolutely terrible, and in no way deserved her position. She did not have respect of her students, she didn't respect her students, and we took nothing away from any of her classes. She did not teach. I don't think it's fair to automatically shut down an effort to evaluate teachers, because teachers do need to be evaluated. I don't think this is a career for everyone, and I don't think just anyone should be allowed to teach. Let's remember what's best for the students - high quality education, and thus, engaging teachers. And couldn't these evaluations motivate teachers to strive for excellence? If they work harder to produce higher test scores, students will have learned more, and teachers will earn the pay they deserve. Perhaps this is something to think about.
  • Amanda Jerwers on 04 Oct 11
     
    Most future teachers find it unfair to figure health care benefits based on student's standardized tests but also do not know how else to assess teachers to judge their performance.
  • Ryan Sabin on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is the only way to measure. There are clear standards and based on results it is black and white if the teacher meet them or not.
  • Jaime Walker on 04 Oct 11
     
    Repo Man; What is being talked about here is how the pay is based off of test scores of the students in the grade, whether you teach them or not. Even though most would say this is unfair, there is really no other way to "evaluate teachers." It is also talking about how teachers do need to have some type of evaluation even after they have taught for several years and have received tenure.
Victoria Zuber

Online Learning: The Pros And Cons Of K-12 Computer Courses - 6 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...ng-pros-and-cons_n_848362.html

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  • Proponents of online classes say they are a cost-effective alternative to traditional instruction that provide students more flexibility in their learning, as well as access to a greater variety of options
    • Victoria Zuber
      Victoria Zuber on 22 Sep 11
       
      Having a variety of class options would make learning more interesting for students because they would get to choose some of the classes taken.
  • In Florida, thousands of students now rely solely on computers instead of teachers for their daily virtual lessons
    • Victoria Zuber
      Victoria Zuber on 22 Sep 11
       
      This is a downfall because students need more face-to-face interaction so that these next generations aren't considered igenerations as well as us.
    • Kayla Geiger
      Kayla Geiger on 22 Sep 11
       
      This comment could seem bias coming from the Author, however, because school are relying on technology to teach students. Based on this authors other comments they seem to be valid and unbiased toward the subject.
    • Rachel Kennell
      Rachel Kennell on 22 Sep 11
       
      Is being an igeneration such a bad thing? Couldn't it be argued that more technological students will make more successful business people in the future?
    • Heather Hardman
      Heather Hardman on 22 Sep 11
       
      Using computers are a pretty good idea but then it is technology and it does not always help with the students learning ability. The face-to-face interaction with the teacher is needed in some lessons that are sometimes hard to work on with out extra help.
  • The analysis did find that students in online conditions performed modestly better, on average, than those learning the same material through traditional face-to-face instruction.
    • Victoria Zuber
      Victoria Zuber on 22 Sep 11
       
      This is interesting to note because previously it was stated that there was no factual information of whether or not these online schools were affective.
    • Rachel Kennell
      Rachel Kennell on 22 Sep 11
       
      Which site is more reliable?
    • Heather Hardman
      Heather Hardman on 22 Sep 11
       
      Students may perform better though online classes but they may not be able to retain that information very well with out having the repetition.
  • Victoria Zuber on 20 Sep 11
     
    This site may be useful however when looking through this site it is important to note whether something is a blog post or factual.
  • anonymous on 20 Sep 11
     
    Description: This website is simply a pro/con list of online computer courses.
Brianna Shaw

Alternative teacher certification programs debated - 2 views

www.azcentral.com/...20090321edcertify0322.html

AL

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  • Meanwhile, both the percentage and number of American college graduates obtaining education degrees has dropped considerably over the last 35 years and Arizona's three public universities are not projected to produce enough teaching candidates to fill the increasing state need
    • Brianna Shaw
      Brianna Shaw on 22 Sep 11
       
      This is important as a pro for AL, but this only referes to the state of Arizona....some states need teachers which makes AL a good solution, but others don't need this option when there are very few teaching jobs and too many collage graduates who majored in education.
  • Arizona's students deserve quality public schools with knowledgeable, well-prepared teacher
  • Research shows that teacher quality is the single most important school-related variable affecting student achievement.
    • Brianna Shaw
      Brianna Shaw on 22 Sep 11
       
      we could use this to go against AL
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  • teaching more as a matter of quantity than of quality
  • us that it takes more than content knowledge to teach students well
Samantha Smith

The pros and cons of distance learning: most students and teachers applaud the flexibil... - 3 views

findarticles.com/...ai_n28127551

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  • most students and teachers applaud the flexibility that online learning allows,
    • Kayla Geiger
      Kayla Geiger on 20 Sep 11
       
      This is a great website.
  • But as the idea of virtual education catches on throughout the country, educators say there are pros and cons to cyber classes and a number of hurdles that schools must overcome.
    • Samantha Smith
      Samantha Smith on 20 Sep 11
       
      I think schools are gonna have to overcome different hurdles if virtual schooling becomes more popular
    • Rachel Kennell
      Rachel Kennell on 22 Sep 11
       
      What kinds of hurdles will they have to overcome? Is it really going to affect public schools very much if a few more students start choosing virtual schooling?
    • Heather Hardman
      Heather Hardman on 22 Sep 11
       
      Schools may have to overcome obstacles but though students may choose to use cyber classes public schools will not be affected that much. Public schools provide different opportunities for students with in their classrooms but if the cyber classes become popular the number of students that attend public schools will start to decline which may cause problems.
    • Kayla Geiger
      Kayla Geiger on 22 Sep 11
       
      There are pros and cons to almost every situation that happens in schools. The author is saying that school is having difficulties for students and teachers, but students and teachers have hurdles without virtual schooling.
  • They say the online classes provide educational alternatives for non-traditional learners such as home schooled students and teens who have dropped out of secondary schools.
    • Samantha Smith
      Samantha Smith on 20 Sep 11
       
      I think it may be good but then students will miss the face to face communication
    • Rachel Kennell
      Rachel Kennell on 22 Sep 11
       
      What about when they can actually see the teacher and the teacher can see the students by video schooling? Then they still have face to face communication.
    • Heather Hardman
      Heather Hardman on 22 Sep 11
       
      When using the virtual schooling yes there may be times that the students can use video schooling to work with the instructor and have that face-to-face communication. There may be times when the students have a question that needs to be answered in person like a math problem and need it shown out.
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  • But virtual classes are not for every student. Students who learn better through verbal cues may have trouble with online classes. Students who do not communicate well in writing may have problems trying to get their point across in e-mails. Other students may not be self-motivated enough to stick with an online class. "It is not a learning style that works for everyone.
    • Samantha Smith
      Samantha Smith on 20 Sep 11
       
      I think it does depend on the student and how they learn and what is best for them.
  • Victoria Zuber on 20 Sep 11
     
    This site is great containing both pros and cons with statements from people who have used viritual schools. And it's nice to get insight from both sides.
  • anonymous on 20 Sep 11
     
    Description: This website is insight into opinions and pros/cons of individuals who has actually used virtual schools.
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