Curriculum Update

Current Status:

Courses Developed(as of 4-13-2011)

Courses Developed

• 89 Total Courses Developed

– 28 Full High School Credit Courses– 40 Half High School Credit Courses– 21 Recovery and RTI Courses

Courses Developed• All courses are built to Tennessee

Standards and include…– Full student text; no textbook required– Full teacher materials/answer keys– Full set of student assignments– Full set of diagnostic, formative, and

summative assessments– Interactive simulations, instructional

games, virtual labs (science), student self assessments

Current Status:

Student Opinion(Spring 2011 Term at Mid-Term)

3294 Student Survey Responsesreceived for Spring at mid-term

Spring 2011 Student Surveys Received by Subject Area

Spring 2011 Student Feedback Origins(as of Mid-term)

Spring 2011 Feedback on Materials

Readings and assignments clear…Helped me learn new skills…Worthwhile for me to learn…

Subject matter was interesting…Games/animations interesting…

Learning goals were clear…Understood what was expected…

3294 Survey Responses

Spring 2011 Feedback on Instructors

Instructor quickly answered my questions

Instructor gave me enough individual attention

Instructor gave enough guidance to improve my weaknesses

Instructor was actively involved in teaching me

3294 Survey Responses

Spring 2011 Feedback on Affect

I learned more than I expected to learn

Some things I learned really made me think

I participated actively in the class discussions

What I learned will be helpful to me in the future

3294 Survey Responses

How does e4TN Defy the Stereotypes of online Curriculum?•Online courses are easier than traditional classes.

•Our curriculum is not only designed to be as rigorous as the most challenging of classrooms, but elicits more work than is typical from many students due to the increased responsibility they must take in their own learning.

•Online courses are a mash of stuff either copied from or linked to a bunch of different websites.

•Our curriculum is instructionally designed and built as a coherent whole and does not rely on outside links.

•Online teachers can’t be as involved with students as teachers in traditional classrooms.

•With curriculum and assignment designs built to foster and promote student-to-student and teacher-to-student interaction, many students experience more interaction and attention from the teacher and their peers than they do in traditional classrooms.

Current Status:

No-Cost Personal Finance Distribution

as of 4-13-2011

Just Released:

TCAP Language Arts & Math

Review Modules (6th, 7th, & 8th Grades)

TCAP Review Site:

In the first 11 days after release, there were

13,154 unique page views

of e4TN’s TCAP review site. TCAP Reviews were released on April 1, 2001.

Additional visits from users in: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Texas.

Math 6, 7, and 8 TCAP Reviews

6,387 total user views; 4,233 unique user views

https://www.e4tn.org/home/tcap/math

Language Arts 6, 7, and 8 TCAP Reviews

2,088 total user views;1,220 unique user views

https://www.e4tn.org/home/tcap/languagearts

Just Released:

Algebra 2 EOCInteractive Mobile Practice Test

Joins the List of Available e4TN Interactive Mobile EOC Practice Tests

•Algebra 1 EOC Practice

•Algebra 2 EOC Practice

•Biology EOC Practice

•English 1 EOC Practice

•English 2 EOC Practice

•US History EOC Practice

Mobile EOC Practice TestsTotal Usage:• 449,206 total page views• 21,071 unique page views

– Algebra 1 EOC Practice: 102,124 Total Views (2,085 Unique)– Biology EOC Practice: 89,119 Total Views (1,297 Unique)– English 2 EOC Practice: 59,338 Total Views (978 Unique)– English 1 EOC Practice: 37,181 Total Views (817 Unique)– US History EOC Practice: 34,847 Total Views (610 Unique)– Algebra 2 EOC Practice: 15,889 Total Views (371 Unique)*

* Algebra 2 EOC data accumulated in first 11 days of release

(From 4-12-10 to 4-12-11)

Mobile EOC Practice Tests

•Have been accessed by users in over 173 cities and towns in 30 states

•Includes instructional feedback and explanations for each practice item

•Provides statistics about user’s success in each Standards Area in order to recommend focused review in areas of weaknesses

Current Projects:

Middle SchoolMath and Language Arts Courses,

Grades 6, 7, and 8

Development• 6 Simultaneously developed courses involving 2 teams of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Instructional Designers (IDs).

•SME content writing contributed by Wilson County Department of Ed.

•ID effective online learning design contributed by e4TN

•Artwork and programming contributed by e4TN

Instructional Design•Follows Gagne’s 9 Events of Learning at Unit and Lesson levels

•Heavily scaffolded through chunked content with multiple levels of student self-assessments and imbedded literacy supports

•Provides diagnostic pre-assessments, formative assessments, and summative assessments to inform instruction.

•Built to fully meet the newest Tennessee Standards for each subject area/grade combination.

•Highly interactive with practice and performance activities designed to build 21st Century skills