The high school classroom of 2015 will not function on a 6 or 7 period day. It will be evenly balanced between traditional classes and online leaning. Kids will be in school all day but when not in a traditional class setting will be in a computer lab doing online learning assignments, in a "seminar" for one of their online courses (required once a week for each online course) or in a testing session for an online course. They also may be waiting in line to talk to an instructor during their office hours.
Instructors will be required to teach at least one tradional course and at least one online course. Their course load will be a combination of 5 or 6 courses. They will have 5 scheduled office hours per week, teach one "in-person seminar" each week for each online course that they teach, and be available for three office hours per week for each online course that they teach.
School "years" will comprise 5 "quarters" of 10 weeks each with schools shut down 2 weeks per year over the winter holidays. Students and teachers will select 4 consecutive "quarters" per year. Each quarter will have a 1-week break that is optional for students (unless they have failed a course the previous quarter) but not for teachers.
Let me know how you feel about this hypothetical situation...lets get this dialog started!
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We need more people to push beyond the school walls. We hear a lot about how the Superintendents across the state are pushing for 5 more weeks of school, maybe this is the place to start. I really believe the future of education is a delivery model that is not solely classroom based nor solely online based. A hybrid model that incorporates both environments is where we should head, and soon.
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