Microlearning Pathways - National Standards for Quality (NSQ)

The online teacher demonstrates professional responsibilities in keeping with the best practices of online instruction.

🖥️ A1: The online teacher meets the professional teaching standards or has academic credentials in the field in which he or she is teaching.

🖥️ A2: The online teacher is a reflective practitioner.

🖥️ A3: The online teacher continuously pursues knowledge and skills related to online learning and pedagogy.

🖥️ A4: The online teacher serves as an ambassador of knowledge to stakeholders.

🖥️ A5: The online teacher demonstrates knowledge of the role of online learning in preparing learners to participate as global citizens.

🖥️ A6: The online teacher demonstrates an understanding of effective time management strategies.

🖥️ A7: The online teacher models digital citizenship.

🖥️ A8: The online teacher maintains accurate records of relevant information and communications in the appropriate format.

🖥️ A9: The online teacher can explain his or her responsibilities in carrying out local or national law or mandates related to accessibility.

The online teacher supports learning and facilitates presence (teacher, social, and learner) with digital pedagogy.

🖥️ B1: The online teacher uses digital pedagogical tools that support communication, productivity, collaboration, analysis, presentation, research, content delivery, and interaction.

🖥️ B2: The online teacher incorporates discipline-specific technologies, tools, and resources to meet individualized learner needs.

🖥️ B3: The online teacher uses different types of tools to interact in online courses in order to nurture learner relationships, encourage learner interaction, and monitor and motivate learner engagement.

🖥️ B4: The online teacher demonstrates basic troubleshooting skills and addresses basic technical issues as they arise.

🖥️ B5: The online teacher supports safe digital learning spaces for all learners (e.g., data ownership and privacy expectations, digital identity curation).

The online teacher facilitates interactions and collaboration to build a supportive online community that fosters active learning.

🖥️ C1: The online teacher employs learner-centered instructional strategies and current practices that leverage technology for learner collaboration.

🖥️ C2: The online teacher creates expectations for appropriate interaction among learners, including establishing netiquette requirements, modeling implementation, and enforcing the requirements.

🖥️ C3: The online teacher develops a community among culturally diverse learners by providing opportunities for interaction that are conducive to active learning.

🖥️ C4: The online teacher promotes learner-learner interaction in online groups in order to foster collaboration and promote higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and/or evaluation.

🖥️ C5: The online teacher is able to meet the learning needs of all learners, regardless of cultural background and perspective.

The online teacher promotes learner success through interactions with learners and other stakeholders and by facilitating meaningful learner engagement in learning activities.

🖥️ D1: The online teacher uses digital tools to identify patterns in learner engagement and performance that will inform improvements to achieve individual learner growth.

🖥️ D2: The online teacher engages learner agency.

🖥️ D3: The online teacher enables a learner-customized pace and/or path through instruction aligned with learners’ individual goals, learning trajectories, and interests.

🖥️ D4: The online teacher establishes relationships through timely and encouraging communication, using various formats.

🖥️ D5: The online teacher helps learners reach content mastery through instruction and quality feedback using various formats.

🖥️ D6: The online teacher ensures that learners have necessary course resources and the information needed to navigate the learning platform and perform required tasks in a timely manner.

🖥️ D7: The online teacher communicates frequently with stakeholders regarding learner progress and strategies for supporting learner engagement.

The online teacher models, guides, and encourages legal, ethical, and safe behavior related to technology use.

▶️🖥️ E1: The online teacher facilitates learning experiences that model and promote digital citizenship.

🖥️ E2: The online teacher establishes standards for learner behavior that are designed to ensure academic integrity and appropriate use of the Internet that adhere to program-level policies.

🖥️ E3: The online teacher models and complies with intellectual property policies and fair-use standards and reinforces their use with learners.

🖥️ E4: The online teacher implements policies, including federal, state, and program-level policies (where applicable), designed to protect learners in the classroom and follows program and classroom Acceptable Use Policies (AUP).

The online teacher personalizes instruction based on the learner’s diverse academic, social, and emotional needs.

🖥️ F1: The online teacher and support staff, where applicable, monitor and interpret learner progress and provide reasonable additional supports to all learners, paying particular attention to learners with identified disabilities or who represent traditionally underserved groups.

🖥️ F2: The online teacher communicates with appropriate school staff regarding specific accommodations, modifications, or needs and works in collaboration with others to address learner needs.

🖥️ F3: The online teacher uses data (quantitative and qualitative) to identify learners who need additional support services.

🖥️ F4: The online teacher creates alternative formats of course materials, if needed, in order to meet the needs of diverse learners and accommodate alternative means of access.

🖥️ F5: The online teacher recommends assistive technologies where appropriate to meet mandated needs and address learner preferences.

🖥️ F6: The online teacher provides additional opportunities for personalized learner growth or enrichment.

🖥️ F7: The online teacher supports and provides a forum for sharing the varied talents and skills that learners bring to the online environment.

Assessment and Measurement – The online teacher creates and/or implements assessments in online learning environments in ways that ensure the validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures. The teacher measures learner progress through assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals, and evaluates learner understanding of how these assessments measure achievement of the learning objectives. (Note: In courses that are already created, teachers may not be able to create or include additional assessments.)

🖥️ G1: The online teacher chooses appropriate assessment tools, which allow students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of the content.

🖥️ G2: The online teacher employs pedagogy and content knowledge to develop and/or effectively implement assessments in ways that ensure the validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures.

🖥️ G3: The online teacher uses strategies to ensure learner academic integrity and the security of learner assessment data.

🖥️ G4: The online teacher implements a variety of assessments that accurately measure learner proficiency.

🖥️ G5: The online teacher evaluates learner readiness and progress using formative and summative assessments and learner feedback throughout the course.

🖥️ G6: The online teacher assures alignment between the assignments, assessments, and standards-based learning goals.

🖥️ G7: The online teacher customizes instruction to personalize the learning experience based on performance and assessment data and learner need.

🖥️ G8: The online teacher creates opportunities for learner self-assessment within courses.

The online teacher curates and creates instructional materials, tools, strategies, and resources to engage all learners and ensure achievement of academic goals.

🖥️ H1: The online teacher designs learning experiences that use technology to efficiently engage learners.

🖥️ H2: The online teacher uses a formative approach to lesson design.

🖥️ H3: The online teacher incorporates diverse media into online learning modules.

🖥️ H4: The online teacher is able to incorporate subject-specific and developmentally appropriate digital learning resources into online learning modules.

🖥️ H5: The online teacher continuously reviews and aligns all course content with applicable course objectives and standards.

🖥️ H6: The online teacher creates, selects, and organizes appropriate assignments and assessments to align curricular content with associated standards-based learning goals.