martes, 7 de marzo de 2023

How to increase virtual engagement

I work at a virtual school associated with a large district. The original plan for the virtual school was to give students and families flexibility in education. We were supposed to be an option for families that travel a lot, medically fragile students, student athletes whose sport takes priority etc. In practice we have noticed that a majority of our students have some form of anxiety keeping them from being successful in traditional school. We have worked hard to support these students and have figured out how to help them be successful.

However, it seems like the district officials have decided that the virtual school can now be used as an alternative placement. We have had a massive influx of students coming in due to safe school violations or instead of truancy court. These kids are continuing to fail online.

Our overall failure rate is hovering around 60%. When we looked at the failing students we see that they are not logging on to the virtual classroom. This is really impacting staff moral. We all feel like we are not effective teachers.

We have had to hire multiple engagement aides. Their job is to track down and contact disengaged students. Between the aides, teachers and admin we are calling, texting or emailing multiple times a week. We have even started doing home visits.

The district is on us because of our failure rates are so much higher than the traditional schools. It is so frustrating.

Has anyone worked in a virtual setting? How did you increase engagement? Do you have any books, articles, blogs, TED talks or anything that we can implement?



Submitted March 07, 2023 at 07:58AM by West_Disaster6436 https://ift.tt/NZ7UXYM

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