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Preparing Instructors for Quality Online Instruction Yi Yang Ph.D. This article is remarkably similar to the text by Palloff & Pratt

Congratulations on making the decision to get a college degree! After the initial excitement wears off, you will next need to figure out how you are going to accomplish this successfully within four years (give or take a semester). Naturally, you will want to prepare yourself for success.

Lisa Nielsen found school boring and irrelevant. That ticked her off so she became a public school educator who works to help change that for others. She does this by finding and sharing innovative ways to prepare students for relevant and real-world success.

With each Scratch project I assign to my high school students, I prepare a rubric. On one side, the project requirements are listed. These are generally listed in a short, bulleted list format which make them easier to follow.

The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure all students have access to a world-class education and quality blended and online learning opportunities that prepare them for a lifetime of success.

A great guide to for preparing how one might implement SBG, and what not to do!

Interesting! I enjoyed the linked article: https://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/keep-it-simple-standards-based-grading/ My children's school district utilizes SBG--but I will say, many teachers do not implement effectively...

School leaders find once they begin to optimize their instructional models using anytime, anywhere learning, state policies that reinforce seat time become a barrier to innovative approaches delivering highly-personalized learning experiences for all students. Personalized learning is important because it holds the promise to create student agency, preparing all students for college, career and life.

Despite concerns about Chat GPT being used for dishonest behavior (e.g., cheating), Chat GPT should be viewed as a tool that promotes critical thinking responses, prevents cheating, helps analyze data/processes, and provides suggestions to make procedures/duties more efficient and effective in K-12 schools. Therefore, schools must embrace GPT to prepare students for the future.

This site, The Cool Cat Teacher, was very appealing to me. There is a great layout of useful information for technology, assessment, lesson plans, etc for multiple grade levels and content areas. This particular podcast stood out to me this week as I'm getting prepared for our Data Team meeting at my school next week. I also found it interesting in our content this week that online learning is perceived to be more individualized. In that case, being able to take data and use it to drive the direction of your classroom learning is very important.