Virtual-Teacher Training Seen to Lack Consistency
While the teacher training for online educators lacks consistency and structure at the state and national levels, long-running virtual school programs have learned much about what online teachers need to know to succeed.
Providing ongoing training in both formal and informal ways, pairing first-year teachers with mentors, and putting rookie virtual teachers in the student’s seat are key elements of comprehensive professional development for online teachers, experts say.
Although some schools of education have begun to include training for online teaching, most do not, said Lisa Dawley, an educational technology professor and researcher at Boise...
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Correction:
An earlier version of this story misidentified Barbara Treacy. She is director of EdTech Leaders Online at the Education Development Center.
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