Advanced Placement Secures Online Niche
Student demand for higher level classes grows.
Teacher Dianna L. Miller taught a variety of Advanced Placement courses in Florida for five years, lecturing, demonstrating concepts, and building close relationships with students she’d see every day in class.
Now Miller teaches AP macro- and micro-economics for the Orlando, Fla.-based Florida Virtual School, and she says most of her students have no idea what she looks like. But Miller feels the relationships forged with her virtual students are even stronger than the ones she formed in her face-to-face interactions.
“My [online] students tell me that I know more about them than any of their classroom teachers, but I’ve never even...
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