OnLine Instruction

eLearning Policies ( September 3rd, January 17th and emergency cancellation days)

1. Platforms: Teachers must utilize the following online platforms to facilitate eLearning: Harmony, Google Classroom, and/or hard copies of work. Online assignments should be submitted through the Google Classroom. Harmony, the student information system, should be used to communicate with parents for daily assignments, discipline, grades, schedule, and attendance. Mass E-mailing can be done through Google Classroom or through the student information system.
   

2. Format: Teachers should utilize a standardized eLearning format. For example, in an efficient lesson plan, teachers will do the following (unless otherwise instructed in an IEP, an ILP or a 504):
   

   1. 1. Model/Demonstrate
         

      2. Guided Practice
         

      3. Independent Practice
         

      4. Assessment

3. As part of the eLearning experience, we should strive to do the same with a thirty to forty (30-40) minute lesson plan in mind. Teachers should provide students with the following for an effective eLearning experience;
   

   1. Provide students with modeling/demonstration material. (i.e. video, podcast, presentation, reading assignment, web site module.
      

   2. Ask students to recall what they have learned. This portion should prove that the student has actively participated in the previous step. A recall quiz or worksheet would be a good example.