PST Online: Meeting the Need for Teaching Innovation for Virtual Schools

Title
PST Online: Meeting the Need for Teaching Innovation for Virtual Schools
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Masters, Yvonne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1120-7950
Email: ymasters@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ymasters
Gregory, Sue
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0417-8266
Email: sgregor4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sgregor4
Grono, Stephen
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Tresorix Ltd
Place of publication
Mauritius
UNE publication id
une:18686
Abstract
Virtual schools are no longer a pipedream: they are already with us. Pre-service teachers need to be prepared for this alternate teaching medium. Unlike blended learning in the classroom, new virtual schools have no need for physical classrooms, and students can be geographically distant from both each other and the teacher. This change in education delivery in schools will necessitate a new approach to curriculum design accompanied by a reshaping of discipline-based courses in higher education institutions in regard to teacher education. Exclusively online teaching changes the teacher/student dynamics and new skills, techniques and strategies should be developed. While there has been some online teaching for many years, initial teacher education has not prepared students for this new way of teaching. In this article the authors present the conceptual underpinning of the need for changes in teacher education and the perceptions of pre-service teachers in terms of their preparedness for virtual teaching. The data from a survey conducted with these pre-service teachers will inform the development of online resources that are part of a funded, ongoing project.
Link
Citation
International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 14(2), p. 1-16
ISSN
1694-2116
1694-2493
Start page
1
End page
16

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