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Monitoring your child's engagement level is critical to his or her success in our online school.
Monitoring your child's engagement level is critical to his or her success in our online school.
Gone is the structure that a school building and a classroom provided to traditional classroom students. New UVA students who were previously homeschooled are affected as well because significant responsibilities are shifting to unfamiliar parties (i.e., teachers, counselors, administrators) outside the home.
Gone is the structure that a school building and a classroom provided to traditional classroom students. New UVA students who were previously homeschooled are affected as well because significant responsibilities are shifting to unfamiliar parties (i.e., teachers, counselors, administrators) outside the home.
Without the usual safety net of the teacher being with them (whether in a classroom or at home for homeschooled students), most children have difficulty staying focused. As a result, understanding your role and executing it well is essential to assisting new UVA students through the transition to learning online.
Without the usual safety net of the teacher being with them (whether in a classroom or at home for homeschooled students), most children have difficulty staying focused. As a result, understanding your role and executing it well is essential to assisting new UVA students through the transition to learning online.
This section of The Orientation Shoppe explores monitoring in-depth.
This section of The Orientation Shoppe explores monitoring in-depth.
Online learning is very different from in-person instruction. Combine that with our inability to observe our students in person, and that leaves us in need of your assistance in two main areas:
Monitoring the Student's Engagement in School
Monitoring the Student's School Performance
Those two monitoring tasks are closely related, but there are subtle differences. Engagement is about what the student is doing, whereas performance is about how the student is doing. We explain the subtleties on the pages that follow.
After completing this section, quite a few monitoring tips and tools will be in your Learning Coach toolbox. Those tools will assist you as you guide and support your child at home. Plus, you will recognize when it is time to ask for help or to communicate a significant observation to our teachers so that we can address your child's hidden needs.
After completing this section, quite a few monitoring tips and tools will be in your Learning Coach toolbox. Those tools will assist you as you guide and support your child at home. Plus, you will recognize when it is time to ask for help or to communicate a significant observation to our teachers so that we can address your child's hidden needs.
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