National Standards for Quality Online Teaching
Click on any Standard below. Start with a self-reflection aligned to the The NSQ Online Teaching standards, and this portal will recommend higher-quality professional learning resources personalized to your strengths and areas of need.
A: Professional Responsibilities
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A: Professional Responsibilities
This standard addresses how the online teacher demonstrates professional responsibilities in keeping with the best practices of online instruction.
B: Digital Pedagogy
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B: Digital Pedagogy
This standard addresses how the online teacher supports learning and facilitates presence (teacher, social, and learner) with digital pedagogy.
C: Community Building
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C: Community Building
This standard addresses how the online teacher facilitates interactions and collaboration to build a supportive online community that fosters active learning.
D: Learner Engagement
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D: Learner Engagement
This standard addresses how the online teacher promotes learner success by facilitating meaningful learner engagement in learning activities.
E: Digital Citizenship
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E: Digital Citizenship
This standard addresses how the online teacher models, guides, and encourages legal, ethical, and safe behavior related to technology use.
F: Diverse Instruction
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F: Diverse Instruction
This standard addresses how the online teacher personalizes instruction based on the learner’s diverse academic, social, and emotional needs.
G: Assessment and Measurement
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G: Assessment and Measurement
This standard addresses how 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.
H: Instructional Design
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H: Instructional Design
This standard addresses how the online teacher curates and creates instructional materials, tools, strategies, and resources to engage all learners and ensure achievement of academic goals.
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The development of the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching and the vetting of supporting learning resources is led by Quality Matters (QM) and the Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance (VLLA). The professional learning portal itself is powered by 2gnoMe.
These standards provide a framework for schools, districts, state agencies, statewide online programs and other interested educational organizations to improve online teaching and learning. The instructional philosophies, approaches and models for online teaching are practically endless. The standards are intended to provide guidance while providing maximum flexibility for the users.
There are 8 standards and 51 indicators in this framework, and over 120 professional learning resources vetted by NSQ and aligned to the NSQ Online Teaching standards. See resource here.
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