Relay Online
Relay Online offers the same premier degree and certification programs for teachers as our traditional options, but with the added convenience of entirely remote courses.
Online Instruction
In 2018, Relay launched its online campus—Relay Online—offering fully online teacher preparation programs with positive reception from students and school partners. Through Relay Online, the institution is able to better serve communities outside of urban centers, where the need for diverse, well-prepared teachers is equally, if not more, pronounced than in many cities.
Relay’s experience with online teacher preparation also positioned the institution to quickly and successfully pivot to online instruction more broadly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Relay Online faculty providing models for strong online instruction and candidate support.
How does the Relay Online program work?
Candidates will engage with all coursework through a blend of both synchronous and asynchronous online learning experiences. Through this approach, candidates are provided with the flexibility to build a foundational understanding of theories and concepts, engage in personal inquiry, and explore video-based classroom models asynchronously before coming together with their cohort colleagues for synchronous faculty-led sessions focused on collaborative sense-making, practice, and application.
Relay Online Tools
Through the Canvas LMS, candidates are able to easily share classroom artifacts representative of their own development for feedback from both peers and professors.
Through the Zoom platform, candidates are able to attend regular synchronous classes with faculty and collaborate and practice with peers.
Relay Online’s distance education course and program offerings build on the success of the blended instructional model that Relay has utilized since its inception. Relay’s hybrid programs are designed with a balance of approximately 60% in-person and 40% asynchronous online instruction, also using the “flipped” classroom approach described above. Relay’s online campus uses a similar balance (i.e., 60% synchronous instruction and 40% asynchronous instruction).
Clinical practice takes place at partner school sites, with Residents spending full days embedded in the classroom of their Resident Advisor, and Intern Teachers serving as the teacher of record in their own classroom, supported by a site-based supervisor.