Standard 2
The teacher provides online leadership in a manner that promotes student success through regular feedback, prompt response and clear expectations.
- Models effective communication skills and maintains records of applicable communications with students.
- Encourages interaction and cooperation among students, encourages active learning, provides prompt feedback, communicates high expectations, and respects diverse talents and learning styles.
- Establishes and maintains ongoing and frequent teacher-student interaction, and student-student interaction.
- Provides an online syllabus that defines objectives, concepts and learning outcomes in a clearly written, concise format.
- Provides an online syllabus that defines the terms of class interaction for both teacher and students, defines clear expectations for both teacher and students, defines the grading criteria, establishes inappropriate behavior criteria for both teacher and students, and explains the course organization to students.
- Gives students clear expectations about teacher response time.
- Uses student data to inform instruction, guides and monitors students’ management of their time, monitors learner progress with available tools and develops an intervention plan for unsuccessful learners.
- Contacts students who are not participating.
- Provides timely, constructive feedback to students about assignments and questions.
- Personalizes feedback (support, growth and encouragement).
- Recognizes that student interaction with the lesson has instructional value and therefore encourages students to participate in leading the instruction and/or demonstrating mastery of the content in other appropriate ways.