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| What is your discipline and the title of your course? |
| My discipline is education. This course is used for a teacher preparation program, EDU276 Classroom Management
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| What makes your course a hybrid? |
| The course is offered in an e-learning format -- online. Students are also required to go into a K-12 classroom of their choice and complete 20 clock hours of a practicum. This gives them a "hands-on" experience.
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| What kind of activities do students do in out of class time? |
| When completing the practicum students spend time observing the classroom and tutoring children in a small group of one-on-one. Some classroom teachers ask our students to do other classroom activities such as: grading papers, creating bulletin boards, conducting mini-lessons, etc. Our students find this experience to be invaluable.
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| Where do your students do their out of work activities? |
| They are allowed to complete their practicum in any private, charter or public K-12 schools setting as long as it is under the direction of a certified teacher. In addition to the class time our teacher prep complete a practicum form. The purpose of the form is to give them some direction as they observe the classroom. They complete the questions on the practicum form as well as write a reflection describing their experience. They receive feedback from their online instructor who is an experienced classroom teacher.
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| What was the reason for offering your course as a hybrid? |
| The online course provides the coursework information. The practicum experience provides students with a "real world" exposure to what it is really like to teach school. It is well known that you can not train people for a human-interaction profession with no human interaction. The hybrid format is critical in the success of creating highly qualified teachers.
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| How many scheduled f2f meetings are there and how are they scheduled? |
| Rio Salado College finds the practicum site for our students. EDU276 Classroom Management requires 20 clock hours in a K-12 setting.
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| What technologies support your hybrid? |
| Rio Salado has built their own online system of delivering coursework.
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| What worked? What did not? |
| We have been very satisfied with this online course as well as the practicum requirement for the course. We pay each of our classroom teachers a small stipend for opening their classroom to our students and providing them with feedback. The teachers are given the opportunity to touch the future by training future teachers.
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| What would you do over/different? |
| I would continue this process. In fact we have continued by designing most of our teacher prep courses in this format.
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| How were you supported? |
| We were initially supported through Proposition301 money. The college now supports our online courses through their systems approach. The entire college supports the teacher prep program and our hybrid format.
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