At Connections Academy, each student receives individualized instruction, including lessons tailored to that student's academic strengths and weaknesses.
Jane Good, a teacher with 21st Century Virtual Academy, works from her home in Thornton, Colo. on Jan. 11, 2012.
Nick Pandolfo
Teacher Jane Good hurries around her kitchen on a recent morning in her Denver suburb, preparing breakfast in what will serve as her work attire for the day: black exercise pants, a black, long-sleeved running shirt and white slipper booties. "
"Best Practices in Online Learning
Posted June 26, 2012 in Online Learning
From David Evans
A recent Time magazine article, "The Teacher You've Never Met: Inside an Online High School Class," profiled Jane Good, one of Colorado's 21st Century Virtual Academy K-12 teachers. As a teacher who only sees her students' hands raised through buttons clicked on a screen and will never be able to tell if a student has dozed off on his or her desk, Good realizes that there are effective and ineffective practices for teaching in an online classroom."
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"Common Core Map
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Standard Description Videos Exercises
Grade: K
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2 EXERCISES
Counting and Cardinality
K.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
K.CC.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
K.CC.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
K.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
K.CC.4.a When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
K.CC.4.b Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
K.CC.4.c Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.
K.CC.5 Count to tell the number of objects.
K.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.1
Comparing Whole Numbers 2
Comparing Whole Numbers 3
K.CC.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.
Geometry
K.G.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.
K.G.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
K.G.3 Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).
K.G.4 Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.
K.G.5
"Summer Academy 2011
Web 2.0 Tools Based on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
Instructor: Joanne Hammond
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Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Revised Digital Taxonomy
Web 2.0 Tools Based on Bloom's Revised Digital Taxonomy"
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