Online Teaching Details
Every course is a full curriculum, fully interactive course with the same rigor and expectations as face to face courses. The Courses are semester based and most of them contain 16 weeks of covered material.
While some of the assignments are auto-corrected, most of them require a teacher to correct and submit student feedback.
The time a teacher needs to work with a student is related to their ease of use with computers, their familiarity with the material that they are teaching and the number of students enrolled in the course. For timely communication with students on various schedules, it is important for teachers to plan on logging in several times per week. The amount of time the teacher is logged in depends on the number of students and assignments that are waiting for them, and the needs of the students enrolled. All the course assignments are provided by the courseware - so the prep time is reduced once you become familiar with the material and the navigation of the courseware. Teachers are expected to post regular announcements on the course announcements page; correct and provide student feedback and respond to students' questions within 24-36 hours of their submission date. Teachers are encouraged to communicate with students via the "messages" section of the course where one-on-one or group communications are all documented in one place. There is a discussion area in the course where teachers are encouraged to develop online classroom higher-level discussions. The courses (except for Advanced Placement Courses) will be offered on a rolling enrollment basis across the semester. Student will not all start and finish on the same date or be expected to be working on the same things at the same time. When they are and it makes sense, teachers are encouraged to develop group-based classroom interactions. There is also a synchronous chat environment in the courseware for scheduled class meetings. The courseware tools are provided via Blackboard's Learning Management System.
The pay depends on the number of students enrolled in the course. If there are 12 or fewer in the semester it is $1,800; each semester an additional $150 per enrolled student will be paid. Payments are made approximately 45 days into the course and again 90 days in, to pay for additional enrollments that may not have been accounted for. Students have a 30 day drop period. Students that have done no work at all after 30 days will be most likely be dropped by their school administrators.
All of our teachers must hold current CT or National certifications in the subjects they are hired to teach.
The application process is completely online on our website.