Rules, expectations, best practices for secondary students, planning, engaging parents and students. 

First on-line class therefore, setting rules and inviting students to help create rules to ensure ownership and buy-in so that students will follow their own rules that they helped to set for the on-line classroom environment.  The students will have a lively discussion with questions and answers about expectations for the on-line secondary student environment to include proper grammar and no abbreviations such as those found on texting and cellphone messages.  Appropriate emojies will be used since we are not in a face-to-face classroom except we will have boundaries set to ensure no one over steps boundaries between students and teachers or visa-versa. For secondary students and best practices it is best to keep it simple and professional to ensure at least 99.99 percent participation.  In planning my on-line classes I will ensure that I keep the environment as professional as possible to ensure students know that their work on this plateform is serious and educational.  I plan to engage the parents (mom's and dad's) to ensure their daughter/son and my students are preparing, reading, researching, and are engaged mentally through the on-line experience in the on-line classroom.  According to Pike (2011) with excellent information on, "Evidence from a recent study concerning the relationships between academic environments and self‐reported learning outcomes, based on Holland's person‐environment fit theory, provides evidence of the appropriateness of using these self‐report data in scholarly research".

Citation: Pike, G.R. (2011), Using college students' self‐reported learning outcomes in scholarly research. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2011: 41-58. doi:10.1002/ir.388