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Fifty percent discounts available to qualifying schools and districts using our Google Coupon.

Offer eligibility requires schools & school districts to concurrently enroll prospective new Online Educators and aspiring 21st Century School Administrators in OTA’s targeted Online Teaching (OTA-121) and Administration and Supervision (OTA-621 & 631) courses.

Begin using  powerful online instructional and assessment strategies in your schools by preparing your teachers and administrators to implement blended and fully online instruction.

Teachers and administrators going through OTA’s online professional development vourses together become “learning communities” that are comitted to improving the academic performance of their students.

In her chapter in What Works in K-12 Online Learning, (Blomeyer and Cavanaugh, 2007), Professor Susan Lowes (Columbia University) foresees a convergence between traditional teaching practice and online teaching and learning:

As more and more site-based teachers also teach a course or two online, as the expectation grows that all students will take an online course before they graduate, as site-based classroom teachers begin to use more virtual resources (including not only such virtual classroom features as the discussion forum but entire virtual courses), as teachers find that their professional development for online teaching is also useful for the site-based classroom, as standards for teaching online become codified and being an effective online teacher becomes valued in the profession, as virtual schools begin to offer courses for site-based classroom teachers and site-based schools to offer courses for virtual teachers, as colleges of education begin to include learning to teach online in their coursework … as all this happens, and happens fast, the distinctions between teaching in a virtual school and teaching in a site-based school begin to look both artificial and, in terms of analysis, even misleading. In this world, “trans-classroom” teachers will move back and forth between the two environments, transferring ideas, strategies, and practices from one to the other. (Cavanaugh & Blomeyer, pg. 177)

Begin harnessing the potential of “trans-classroom teachers” and 21st century leadership today!

With every contract for an OTA/Google “School Improvement Package,” OTA designs and implements a customized “Response to Intervention” study (RTI) documenting impact fr0m our professional development services on participating teacher’s performance and on the academic performance of their students. Reports documenting impact from OTA’s School Improvement Package are provided to the responsible school administrators only*.

Download descriptions of OTA’s “Online Teaching”  and “Administration and Supervision” courses by clicking their respective links on the right side-bar.

For More Information contact:

Robert Blomeyer, Ph.D.

President and Co-Founder

Online Teaching Associates

http://www.OnlineTeachingAssociates.com

Home Phone:           630-769-5178

Cell Phone:               630-319-7885

Note: All OTA’s online courses are “accessible” and ADA Section 504 Compliant

*Effective determination of impact depends  on access to  aggregate data documenting students’ academic performance and/or  aggregate scores from the standardized tests used to benchmark Average Yearly Progress  in your school &/or district. Individual student’s and teacher’s identities are strictly protected. Particulars on aggregate data access will be individually negotiated for each and every contract.