Web-Based Courses in Manitoba are available to schools wishing to teach high school courses through the internet. These courses thought by teachers who may be off site. According to Sophia Palahicky, WBC-Manitoba has 42 web based courses, around 1000 teachers and 9000 students.
I have taken any online courses before, but I have check WBC math courses to see if I can use some of them as resources to my classes. Currently, I'm teaching Essential Math grade 10 and checked out the WBC Essential Math Grade 10.
I found some of the notes and the examples on WBC tired to relate Math lessons to the real world experience which I found great comparing the old text book I'm currently using for my class.
Grade 11 Applied and Pre-Calculus courses are still on the process of changing them. They can be used as an additional resources in the classroom.
My overall concern on the WBC courses are the usual ones, lack of contact between students and teachers. For me, in my past student teaching I have noticed one of the main problems we have in our school regarding teaching math is teachers spend less time to asses and help students on areas they struggle because of the size of classes, size of the courses the teacher has to cover in the school year. For me, you can have the best lecture on the internet or the best notes on line, but the key for our students to succeed is they need teachers we can spend enough time working with them to help them well equipped for the next classes.
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