TEACHER GUIDES

Locating the Teacher’s Guide

Each course includes a comprehensive Teacher’s Guide that provide online teachers with the tools and information necessary to support students as they move through the course. While the content and structure of the Teacher’s Guide may vary slightly between disciplines, these standard components can be found in most courses:

1. Overview 2. Course Syllabus 3. Lesson Structure 4. Materials Needed 5. Practice Activities 6. Assessments, Answer Keys, & Rubrics 7. How-To Pages 8. Differentiating Instruction

To locate the Teacher’s Guide, go to the Course Menu and open the Resources folder. Inside that folder, you will see a hidden content item that is labeled Teacher’s Guide. Click on the link to open it.

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Overview

The Overview page provides an overview of the information found in a particular Teacher’s Guide.

Course Syllabus

A detailed Course Syllabus is included within the Teacher’s Guide. Teachers are provided access to the Course Syllabus for both semesters of a year-long course so they have visibility into the overall scope and sequence of the course.

Each Course Syllabus contains:

1. A detailed Course Description 2. The Scope and Sequence of a particular course 3. Lesson Objectives

Lesson Structure

The Lesson Structure overview provides helpful information about how long students should take to complete each lesson. It also provides insight to the teacher of the pedagogy behind the lesson design, highlighting the purpose and objective of each lesson component. Embedded throughout the Lesson Structure overview are tips and insights to help the online teacher engage with their students and reinforce what the students are learning in the course.

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Materials Needed

The Materials Needed section of the Teacher’s Guide highlights any materials that the students will need to successfully complete the course. These same materials are noted in our online course descriptions.

Practice Activities

Some courses, such as this Algebra 1 example, include many Practice Activities that students are asked to complete throughout the course. These are non-gradable activities so they do not appear in the course Gradebook.

Teachers are encouraged to collect completed documents to monitor how students are performing in the course. For each Practice Activity, there is a link to the Page within the course where the Activity is found, as well as the Study Aid template that has been provided to the student.

Assessments, Answer Keys, & Rubrics

Within the Teacher’s Guide, teachers will find a comprehensive Assessments, Answer Keys, & Rubrics section which provides an overview of all graded assignments/activities/assessments within the course as well as information about how each item is graded. Many assessments are computer-scored. Those are noted as such. If an item requires manual teacher grading, an Answer Key and/or Rubric is provided as a support for the teacher.

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Study Aid

Sample list of graded assessments:

Sample rubric:

How-To Pages

The Teacher’s Guide includes helpful How-To Pages to make sure that teachers have ready-access to common FAQs related to their course.

Differentiating Instruction

The final section in the Teacher’s Guide provides helpful tips for the teacher on Differentiating Instruction for their students and provides varying strategies and approaches depending on the individual students’ abilities and experience level.