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General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Robyn MacKillop, Capella University, Oregon, USA, rmackill@yahoo.com//
 * Is Online Teaching for You? What You Need to Know to Be a Great Online Teacher**

The availability of online education for high school students is growing rapidly. As online education grows, the provision of skills and knowledge necessary for students to function in the world beyond high school depends on qualified teachers. Qualified online teachers are a necessity.

This presentation will provide online teachers, both active and potential, with the skills necessary to become a more effective online educators. Because there are so many differences between face-to-face and online teaching, it is imperative that the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to be successful and maintain student engagement be known. We will discuss the meaning and practice of teaching from a distance, how to manage time as an online teacher, and how to keep students engaged as online learners. We will also discuss ways to differentiate instruction for multiple levels of learners since most online classes are already built. In addition, teachers will learn the use of various technologies and student choice in assessments.

Novice, Intermediate online teaching, distance learning, distance education teaching