While travel through VHS classrooms on how they deliver their material I discover many answers to my questions from their fantastic virtual specialist. Cheryl Rosenberg with VHS explains how the program is interactive amongst teachers and student plus peer to peer. Students are given assignments and are posed questions and they answer them in a virtual discussion area. Then they are asked to respond to their peer’s answers. Tests and quizzes are used in the courses however students are graded on classroom participation and being able to demonstrate to their teacher what they have learned. VHS also require students to work in a group projects too. VHS cohort paces together each week in a student-centered teaching environment. The instructor will log into their class once a day and answer questions within 24 hours. We try and mirror the face-to-face classroom with keeping their class sizes relatively small (Rosenberg 2013).
VHS partners with local schools. VHS leaves policy, credit and student eligibility up too the individual district. Schools join the VHS program with a membership and designate enrollments to their students. VHS is not a diploma granting institution. Not to mention funding is paid for and budgeted by the school. Virtual High Schools (VHS) students come from around the world and all students from anywhere are encouraged to participate in their virtual classrooms. Students can be part-time or full time. VHS provides a variety of online programs to choose from. Such as a collaborative model where schools from around the world join VHS as supplemental way to expand what they all ready teach. Second is that VHS offers blended Learning schools teacher’s teach just their students VHS teacher creates a blended class. Not to mention VHS offers Full Time Enrollment. One student can select up to six courses per semester, school supports student’s needs and provides services. VHS just is offering the courses, teachers and technology.
The virtual High School, (2012) The VHS Collaborative Retrieved from:
http://www.thevhscollaborative.org/
Rosenberg, C. (2013). The Virtual High School
Interesting that the high school does not provide a diploma. If the students are full time, then how do they earn their high school diploma if they want to go on to college?
ReplyDeleteHello. So VHS partners with school districts in turn they issue credit for our courses. Although we may have some full time enrollments, schools partner with us to expand what they can offer to their students with courses not normally offered in the buidling like Animal Behavior, Preveterinary Medicine, Nuclear Physics, AP Music Theory etc. In any instance all policy, credit and control is determined by the local district.
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