What is the Association of K12 Online Schooling

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What is the Association of K-12 Online Schooling?

• The Association was established in January, 2005
• AOK12S is made up of online educators,
  developers, administrators as well as entire
  online K-12 schools.

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Mission Statement

• "The purpose of the Association of Online K-12
  Schooling is to develop interest, participation
  and cooperation in a sharing environment with the
  online K-12 school membership community.
• Further, the membership will provide a virtual
  association which will utilize the latest
  advancements in technology and services to assist
  its members in teaching and developing online."

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Association Objectives

• To promote the cause and quality education in
  K-12 Online Schooling.
• To raise the status of the online teaching
  profession.
• To influence public opinion regarding the
  introduction of online education into the K-12
  market.
• To support excellence in online teaching.
• To encourage teacher participation in educational
  decisions within the Association.
• To advocate the best interests of the online K-12
  teaching profession.

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Who belongs to the ?

• Membership spans 3 continents
• (North America, Australia Africa)
• Number of school memberships - 16
• Number of educator memberships 60
• Online educators from all nations are welcome to
  apply for membership. Schools as a whole or
  individuals may also become members.

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What does the do?

• The goal of the Association is to provide a
  location where K-12 online educators, developers
  and administrators can gather.
• This virtual community will offer an environment
  which will be conducive to communication,
  resource sharing and team building.

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What does the do?

• The Association will promote the latest
  advancements in technology and services to assist
  its members in teaching and developing online.

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Benefits of Membership

• Newsletters released quarterly
• Showcase Units
• Online collaboration in AOK12S Learning Community
• SCCS Learning Communities
• Worldwide communication with online k-12
  educators
• Networking.

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An Educators Perspective

• The Association is an effective way to share
  materials with other educators.
• Users can go online to find lessons or materials
  in the Learning Communities. A great many of
  them are print-friendly which makes it useful for
  classroom work as well.

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An Educators Perspective

• No re-inventing the wheel!
• Since the materials are sorted by grade and
  subject it makes the search so much easier.

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An Educators Perspective

• Teachers are given actual content to teach to
  their students.
• The elementary computer lessons are user-friendly
  for both students and teachers.

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An Educators Perspective

• There are many units of study that can be either
  completed online or printed off and worked on in
  the classroom.
• The information offered online through the SCCS
  Learning Communities is user friendly so that the
  members can follow without much need for support.

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An Educators Perspective

• The high school courses developed by Cyber School
  teachers can be accessed through the Learning
  Communities. Exams are not available.
• This is a way for educators to interact with each
  other. Besides, theyre a blast to use!