Proposal for Teacher Training at Alloway Creek Intermediate School Littlestown Area School District by Mary Heuer

What is the training need? All teachers should have sufficient skills to allow them to use basic technologies including: Instructing students in a lab setting using Word 2003 TM Power Point, Compass Learning, Streaming Videos, and Teacher Tube.

How will this training most efficiently use time and resources? Start with an Audience Analysis: What are the current levels of technology skill? Who needs training? A brief Google docs survey would provide this information.

The First Training Module Training Teachers to Instruct Students in Creating Documents Using Word 2003

Expected Benefits: All teachers will feel comfortable in teaching word processing in a lab setting resulting students being able to create word documents in an efficient manner. Students will begin sixth grade with basic word processing skills. Students who experience a great deal of difficulty with handwriting will have a tool to aid them in producing written assignments. 1.The school district will get a greater return on investment of technology dollars. 2. The district will have a training model that if successful can be used in introducing new technologies as they are made available. Teachers are being given scanners and ceiling mounted projectors for their classrooms in the near future.

Teachers who do not have the skills necessary to incorporate technology in their instruction or to instruct students in using word processing programs should receive training.

Cost Estimated Project Costs: Training would be done in-house by a SME staff member during the regular contracted teaching day incurring no monetary cost to the school district. Conducting the training during team meeting times would not require the expense of hiring substitute teachers for trainees. A $100 cost may be incurred if the SME needs a substitute for a school business day to prepare for the training.

Implementation Training will be conducted in the main computer lab at Alloway Creek Intermediate School. This lab houses 25 Windows based computers, a printer, and projector. The computer lab should be prepared ahead of time by the trainer. All computers should be turned on, the printer should be on and supplied with paper, and the projector should be connected and tested to be sure it is functioning properly. The trainer will instruct the trainees in signing out the computer lab, preparing the computer lab, logging on to the computers, using the overhead projector for instruction/modeling, opening, naming, and saving a Word document, formatting and editing a Word document with the expectation of instructing their students in creating properly formatted multi-paragraph documents. The trainer will use a Windows based computer connected to a projector to display a Power Point presentation for signing out the computer lab, Word 2003 to model the steps teachers will be using in instructing their students, a vocabulary hand out of essential terms used in Word 2003, and a video clip of a teacher instructing a class in creating a Word document in a lab setting.

Project Design Phase One: During grade level team meetings, a subject matter expert will train team members to: 1. sign out the lab 2. prepare the lab 3. use the projector 4. use Word 2003TM to complete, save, and print a document.

Time The initial training will be completed in two forty-five minute sessions with dates and time of day to be determined by the administrator of Alloway Creek Intermediate School. Additional trainings will be determined by a follow up Google docs survey

A proposed brief video to prevent some common problems.

Was the goal met? The goal of this training course is to train teachers in the skills needed to effectively instruct students in creating documents using Word 2003™. How will this be determined?

Evaluation The training will be evaluated to determine the trainees’ reaction to the training, if the training resulted in transfer of skills to the job, and an improvement in job performance. How?

Trainees’ Reaction to the Training Trainees’ reaction to the training will be evaluated at the end of the training session with trainees completing a Google docs survey. The trainer will email a link to the trainees to complete the survey. The trainer and the building principal, will discuss the results of the survey. The trainees have completed Google doc surveys in previous trainings.

Trainees’ Follow-Up Survey To determine it the training resulted in transfer of skills to the job a second Google docs survey will be sent to the trainees by the trainer. The survey will be used to evaluate if the trainees are using the skills taught during the training, if follow-up training is needed, and if there are questions to be addressed. Trainees will be able to include comments on the survey and suggest future trainings. To gain specific information survey items will be responded to with short answers. The building principal and the trainer will review the survey responses.

Improvement in Job Performance Additional follow-up evaluations will be done by the trainer by observing individual teachers using the training if requested by a teacher/trainee for feedback or at the building principal’s request. A rubric will be completed by the observer.

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Not part of my presentation but: Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!