Lessons from an online teacher preparation Program: flexing work experience to meet student needs and regulators’ requirements in the United States

Abstract

In the United States, educator preparation is regulated at the state level. Accordingly, each state education system, and even individual districts, responded uniquely to the COVID-19 pandemic. Western Governors University (WGU) compiled a list of each state regulators' response to COVID, many of which included relaxation of student teaching requirements. While most of WGU's teacher preparation programme is delivered online, students complete observations and student teaching (teaching practice) in traditional classrooms. WGU had 1,875 student teacher candidates in the field on 1 March 2020. Through diligent effort all the candidates were able to complete their student teaching. WGU responded by allowing parallelism between the student teachers and their mentor teacher so that the student teacher could engage in teaching in the same manner as their mentor teacher, which varied on a district-by-district and state-by-state basis. WGU was also careful to evaluate whether the host school's virtualisation was still meeting the needs of the student teacher and if not, then to shift the student teacher to a different placement that was more virtual-friendly. Additionally, WGU plans to pilot intentionally virtual student teaching opportunities with online charter schools in autumn 2020.

Postgraduate Student Readiness Entering Cloud Class Era

“…Murphy thought that the education can be done by e-learning by referring to health procedure standard. As well, Barnes et al [10] in United Stated in facing the Covid, Western Governors University (WGU) designed a list of regulator of all districts, relaxation of student teaching requirement, the program is delivered online, students can complete tasks and teaching and learning process in traditional classrooms, parallelism between teachers and teacher, teachers and students, students and students, to evaluate whether the host school's virtualization was still meeting the needs of the student teacher and if not, then to shift the student teacher to a different placement that was more virtual-friendly. So this research has differences in exploring students' opinions on the learning method to be used during the Covid 19 era.…”

“…For question 3 related to the perceived benefits in joining online learning/meeting, it is as follow: (1) More relaxed; (2) Can be done at home, it can also be easier when on assignment, it is not necessary to go to campus; (3) Fostering motivation to learn about information technology; (4) Can be done while working; (5) More relaxed when lecturers and students interact; (6) Can be followed anywhere and anytime; (7) Can meet face to face when using zoom or Google meet, speed up delivery of assignments given by teachers, students will not be bored at home; (8) no need to wear nice clothes to go to campus; (9) Many webinars are free so it is easy to add knowledge; (10) can encourage educators to be more creative and innovative in bringing online classes to life .. so that new ideas can be implemented; (11) Then, question 4 related to the most appropriate online method to be used, the respondents' answers among others are (1) by zoom meeting, since it can be done face-to-face though there is sometimes unstable signal; (2) provision of assignment which is literature study which can be done by many people;…”

Cloud Class dan Cloud Meeting; Model Pembelajaran Pascasarjana dan Meeting Pimpinan

“…Seperti yang dikemukakan oleh berbagai peneliti seperti (Murphy, 2020) yang membantah bahwa pada masa covid seharusnya perguruan tinggi di non aktifkan karena permasalahan dengan penyebaran ,Murphy berpendapat pendidikan dapat dilaksanakan melalui e-learning dengan merujuk pada standar prosedur 458 kesehatan. Demikian juga dengan (Barnes et al, 2020) di Amerika Serikat dalam menghadapi Covid, Western Governors University (WGU) Menyusun daftar regulator dari semua negara bagian, relaxation of student teaching requirement, program disampaikan secara online, siswa menyelesaikan tugas dan proses belajar mengajar di traditional classrooms, paralelisme antara guru dan guru, guru dan siswa, siswa dan siswa, to evaluate whether the host school's 458 kesehatan was still meeting the needs of the student teacher and if not, then to shift the student teacher to a different placement that was more virtual-friendly. Sehingga penelitian ini memiliki perbedaan dengan menggali pendapat mahasiswa tentang metode pembelajaran yang dipakai pada masa covid 19.…”

Assessing the Effectiveness of Geography-based Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Higher Education

“…Globally, the pandemic has negatively affected the normal way of working since people fear contracting the virus (Talidong & Toquero, 2020). The education sector has not been isolated either since learning in all institutions shifted from face-to-face to online using social media platforms (Baloran, 2020;Barnes et al, 2020). However, the education sector was unprepared for the transition, thereby experiencing various challenges in implementing online learning (Scull et al, 2020).…”

“…Today almost all schools across the globe have adopted the online learning system despite the challenges in its implementation (Barnes et al, 2020;Coolican et al, 2020;Nasri et al, 2020;Talidong & Toquero, 2020). According to Morgan (2020), the new system has its advantages, such as preventing student regression in online learning compared to a school setup.…”