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Solving the Online Puzzle: How OFs, LFs and Online
Teachers Fit Together
Solving the Online Puzzle: How OFs, LFs and Online
Teachers Fit Together
Tracy SpeightSite Coordinator, Tipton County Schools
Tina MullensTeacher
[email protected]/tiffkelley
Site Coordinator(SC)Site Coordinator(SC)
Solving the Online Puzzle: Site CoordinatorSolving the Online Puzzle: Site Coordinator• Parent Informational Meeting
– e4TN web page• Student Orientation (Mandatory)
– Student Handbook– OpenOffice– LMS Navigation– Dropbox procedures– Email
• Communicate with: – Other District Site Coordinators– Regional Support Representative– Lead Teachers– District Level Personnel
• Onsite Facilitators• Lab Facilitators• Teachers• Parents• Students
Onsite Facilitator(OF)Onsite Facilitator(OF)
Solving the Online Puzzle: OnSite FacilitatorSolving the Online Puzzle: OnSite Facilitator
• Building Level Certified Person• Listed as Teacher of Record on School’s Preliminary
Report• Register Students• Compile list of students and their online teachers• Communicate with EVERYONE involved in your
school:
• Student • Lab Facilitator
• Students’ teachers • Parent
Solving the Online Puzzle: OnSite FacilitatorSolving the Online Puzzle: OnSite Facilitator
• Printout of the students’ assignments and schedule (folder)
• Stay in contact with the teachers and the students– My students’ teachers would email me if they were
concerned about their student at my school. I would find them and meet with them individually about the concerns.
• Print emails to show students
– When talking to my students, they would tell me things that were different from what the teacher was communicating.
Solving the Online Puzzle: OnSite FacilitatorSolving the Online Puzzle: OnSite Facilitator
• Inform students’ online teachers of important dates at your school
– ex: Spring/Fall Break, Testing, or Extracurricular trips
• Place an e4TN link on your school’s web page for easy student access - MHS page
• Talk to your Guidance department about the possibility of scheduling time for your students to work during school hours
• Schedule final exams
Lab Facilitator(LF)
Probably the most important job to guarantee students’ success
Lab Facilitator(LF)
Probably the most important job to guarantee students’ success
Solving the Online Puzzle: Lab FacilitatorSolving the Online Puzzle: Lab Facilitator
• Monitors and assists students daily in lab.
• Obtain list of students’ online teachers
• Communicate with EVERYONE involved in your school
• Student
• Lab Facilitator
• Students’ online teachers
• Onsite Facilitator
Solving the Online Puzzle: Lab FacilitatorSolving the Online Puzzle: Lab Facilitator
• Obtain each student’s class schedule in your school
• Meet with the students in your school at least once a week
• Assist in the resolution of any technical issues – Install plug-ins and programs– Submit tickets concerning problems with learning
management system (D2L)– Address individual student technical needs
Solving the Online Puzzle: Lab FacilitatorSolving the Online Puzzle: Lab Facilitator
• Printout of the students’ assignments and schedule (folder)
• Stay in contact with the teachers and the students– My students’ teachers would email me if they were
concerned about their student at my school. I would find them and meet with them individually about the concerns.
• Print emails to show students
– When talking to my students, they would tell me things that were different from what the teacher was communicating.
TeacherTeacher
Solving the Online Puzzle: TeacherSolving the Online Puzzle: Teacher
• Communicate, Communicate, Communicate!
• Obtain email addresses for all parties involved:
– Onsite Facilitators
– Lab Facilitators
– Parents
• Each time that I email a student, I also copy the parent. If I thought the student needed extra help, I would also email the Lab Facilitator.
Solving the Online Puzzle: TeacherSolving the Online Puzzle: Teacher
• As a teacher, you must:– post the class schedule or individual pacing guides– enter weekly “announcements”– contact the parents once a month– contact students every week
• Help the students, parents, Lab Facilitators as much as you can. – I had a student at a school who could not open assignments
or place them in the dropbox. Therefore, I opened the assignments and sent them as an attachment to the Lab Facilitator. After the student completed the work, the LF faxed me the assignments and I graded them.
Solving the Online Puzzle: TeacherSolving the Online Puzzle: Teacher
• Log tickets
– You must turn in tickets if there are any technical problems with the content or Learning Management System (D2L) site
• Grade the assignments within 72 hrs
• Reply to student and parent emails within 24 hrs
• Remember SPRITE!
Communicate, Communicate, Communicate!