CI
280A Pre-Student Teaching Experience
Spring 2006
Course Instructor - Jason Follett
Introduction
A recently released report on K-12 virtual schooling from the National Center for Educational Statistics says that about one-third of public school districts or 9% of public schools had enrolled in distance education courses during the 2002-2003 U.S. school year. According to Wood (2005), this translates to about 3,000,000 students attending online classes in this time period, and this number is projected to grow exponentially in the next decade (cited in Davis & Roblyer).
With this huge number of K-12 students enrolled for virtual schooling, how many K-12 teachers do you think are prepared or trained to teach, develop or faciliate these virtual courses?
For the next two sessions, you will be introduced to some of the issues relating to virtual schooling.
(adapted from Introduction by Amina Charania and Sumaya Mustafa)
Reference
Davis, N.E & Roblyer, M.E. (2006, April). Preparing teachers for the "schools that technology built": Evaluation. Symposium for the annual AERA meeting San Francisco,CA .
