iNACOL Standards
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Standard A: The online teacher knows the primary concepts and structures of effective online instruction and is able to create learning experiences to enable student success. |
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Standard B: The online teacher understands and is able to use a range of technologies, both existing and emerging, that effectively support student learning and engagement in the online environment. |
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Standard C: The online teacher plans, designs, and incorporates strategies to encourage active learning, application, interaction, participation, and collaboration in the online environment. |
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Standard D: The online teacher promotes student success through clear expectations, prompt responses, and regular feedback. |
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Standard E: The online teacher models, guides, and encourages legal, ethical, and safe behavior related to technology use. |
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Standard F: The online teacher is cognizant of the diversity of student academic needs and incorporates accommodations into the online environment. |
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Standard G: The online teacher demonstrates competencies in creating and implementing assessments in online learning environments in ways that ensure validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures. |
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Standard H: The online teacher develops and delivers assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assesses learning progress by measuring student achievement of the learning goals. |
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Standard I: The online teacher demonstrates competency in using data from assessments and other data sources to modify content and to guide student learning. |
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Standard J: The online teacher interacts in a professional, effective manner with colleagues, parents, and other members of the community to support students’ success. |
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Standard K: The online teacher arranges media and content to help students and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively in the online environment. |
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Overall, I am proud of how far I have come in understanding and implementing the iNACOL standards. Prior to my Master’s Program, I had never heard of them; therefore, they were a whole new concept to me. While it may have been overwhelming at first, I can now say that I appreciate the challenges I faced with them.
My lowest scoring standard was Standard F, which is “The online teacher is cognizant of the diversity of student academic needs and incorporates accommodations into the online environment” (iNACOL, 2019). I scored myself a 2 because I understand each child does not learn the same way, and I am aware of the importance of incorporating accommodations that allows each student the opportunity to succeed. However, I feel like I didn’t fully meet this standard when creating my unit. While I did provide audio and visual resources throughout my unit, as well as the use of hands-on manipulatives, I didn’t give my students the opportunity to complete the key summative assessment in a different way, if needed. All students were asked to complete the assessment in the same way; therefore, moving forward, in order to attain mastery of this standard, I need to think of other possible options for students to complete the summative assessment. For example, maybe students who don’t feel comfortable drawing out their model representation on Seesaw can solve their addition problem using hands-on manipulatives, such as base-ten blocks or cubes.
The highest scoring standard that I am choosing to write about is Standard K. I gave myself a 4 for this standard because I am proud of how I created videos explaining the instructions for the discussion post and the key summative assessment. I also created a sample video for my students where I model the key summative assessment and how they are supposed to record themselves explaining each step in solving their own addition problem. Moving forward, I will go through my unit and continue to create videos of myself explaining and modeling assignments, as well as delivering instructions. This is crucial for my first graders who still struggle with reading, as well as my audio and visual learners.
iNACOL. (2019). iNACOL national standards for quality online teaching (v2). Retrieved from https://www.inacol.org/resource/inacol-national-standards-for-quality-online-teaching-v2/