ASL Virtual Teacher Training (VTA) Schedule

Welcome to Proximity Learning’s Virtual Teacher Academy Program. 

We are excited to support you as you prepare for teaching. You are not required to attend live training sessions on Monday of your training week, but we will offer daily opportunities for live support, You will need to schedule a live meeting on Thursday of your training week with our ASL department chair, Linnae Janky, and we will offer daily office hours for your to receive hands-onsupport, which we will detail below.

Training Slides

Please refer to our training slides whenever you need them. 

We recommend you save a shortcut to these slides in your Google drive for your reference. 

Click for a tutorial on how to create copies and save shortcuts to Google resources.

Training Schedule

Please start your asynchronous training tasks as early as possible, starting with your VTA Day 1 Account Set-Up Assignment. Daily VTA course assignments take approximately 2–3 hours to complete, totaling 8–12 hours overall. We strongly recommend starting right away!

Please review your scheduled live training session below:

Our ASL department chair, Linnae Janky will follow up with more details and meeting links for your live training sessions on Thursday and Friday. Please remain attentive for emails coming into your @poxlearn.com email for important updates. 

Live Sessions
Day	Time	Activities
Mon-Thur	Asyncronous	Complete your account setup assignment and work on the VTA courses on your Canvas dashboard (more details below) Daily, Optional Office Hour Support
Thur	1:30 PM to 3:30 PM CST	VTA Live Training with Linnae Janky Please ensure VTA courses 1-4 have been completed before this meeting
Fri	9 AM to 10 AM CST	VTA Live Check-In with Linnae Janky (as needed/determined by Linnae) All Asynchronous courses and Teacher Tasks are due by 8:00 AM Central Time You may be asked to submit a 10-minute demo lesson by 10 AM Central Time on Friday. If required, you will receive detailed instructions via your PLI email by the end of Day 2 of your training week. Be sure to check your inbox.

Important First Step: Sign in to your PLI Google account. 

To view many of our resources and platforms, you must first sign in to your web browser through your PLI Google account.  

(We recommend using Google Chrome for navigating PLI Platforms.)