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Professional Development Solutions

The best classroom teachers know how to motivate and engage students. However, instructional skill sets and strategies vary from classroom to online teaching. Even veteran teachers need support to make that transition.

As an operating public school funded solely upon successful student completions, Florida Virtual School knows the pressure of ensuring student achievement. An entire collection of tools have evolved which now directly benefit you.

Teacher in front of chalkboard with laptop Teaching Online Series
The Teaching Online Series is the perfect professional development answer for your teachers. These courses are filled with best practices specific to the virtual school environment, including customer service tips and time savers. All courses can be accessed 24/7 via a username and password, or customized with information unique to your school.

Teaching Online 101: Introduction to online teaching

Teaching Online 102: A look at advanced topics

Teaching Online 103: Learn to assist struggling readers

eTeacher’s Guides

Our newly re-developed eTeacher’s Guides perform the same function as traditional teacher’s guides that accompany textbooks. Designed to complement FLVS courses, eTeacher’s Guides provide each teacher with their own virtual "walk through" of a course, including a review of course content, theme, pace, syllabus, assessments, answer key access, rubrics, and course materials.

ETLO Workshops
Looking for a quick way to brush up on what’s new in online education? FLVS is proud to offer fully-facilitated mini-courses created by EdTech Online Leaders (ETLO), an award-winning developer of online content. These standards-based, project-oriented workshops are developed and updated by leading experts in educational technology and provide an overview of new developments in online learning.

ETLO workshops are facilitated by fully-trained FLVS instructors. All course content is provided online and contains reading materials, multimedia resources, interactive exercises, and focused asynchronous discussions. Most of these workshops consist of six sessions, amounting to approximately 30 total credit hours.

Virtual Leadership Training ( VLT)
If you’ve been tasked with creating or managing a virtual school, you likely have questions and are looking for resources. Our two-day intensive training is designed to help you ask the right questions, do the right planning, and create a blueprint for action.
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Mentoring Program
The FLVS Mentoring Program provides just-in-time trainings for your online instructional staff. Choose from the most relevant and up-to-date topics in order to provide your teachers with the answers and experiences they need to be effective online instructors. Trained, experienced FLVS staff will provide synchronous webinars and question/answer sessions. Webinars can also be coupled with the facilitation of one of our Teaching Online courses for a complete solution to your instructional professional development needs.