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Digital Learning Now: Element #6- Instruction
December 29th, 2011 | 
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Digital instruction and teachers are high quality. Actions for lawmakers and policymakers: • State provides alternative certification routes, including online instruction and performance-based certification. • State provides certification reciprocity for online instructors certified by another state. • State creates the opportunity for multi-location instruction. • State encourages post-secondary institutions with teacher preparation programs to offer targeted digital instruction training. • State ensures that teachers have professional development or training to better utilize technology and before teaching an online or blended learning course. Great teachers produce great students — wherever they live or learn. Digital learning erases physical barriers that have prevented the widespread connection between effective teachers and eager students. Statutory and administrative practices that stop instruction — at the classroom door, school campus, state border or even the nation’s border — limit access to quality educators. A retired NASA scientist in Cape Canaveral who is qualified to teach physics in the Sunshine State should be able to teach students in any state in the country. A digital educator in one school should be able to teach students in multiple schools in-state or out-of-state. Preparation and professional development programs should educate teachers and administrators on how to engage students, personalize learning, teach online and manage learning …
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For more info, see www.mcrel.org During two interactive online sessions every month of the school year, McREL translates research into practical guidance for teachers. During the first session, we introduce new research-based practices and show teachers how to apply them in their classrooms. During the follow-up session, we answer teachers’ questions and show them how to integrate technology into the practices they are learning. In addition, once a month, administrator sessions introduce technology leadership strategies from McREL’s Balanced Leadership professional development series.