© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 1 Part 2 MarcoPolo Update
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 2 Review: What is MarcoPolo? Partnership between the MarcoPolo Education Foundation and leading educational organizations Discipline-specific Web sites National STANDARDS-BASED Internet Content for the Classroom Professional development support Easily accessible at NO COST No login or password required
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 3 The MarcoPolo Partnership
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 4 Seal of Approval Accurate Unbiased Up-To-Date Appropriate
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 5 Classroom-Ready Interactive activities Worksheets Online resources
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 6 Addresses Multiple Learning Styles
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide lessons aligned to HCPS
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 8 Relaunching of Sites Science NetLinks EdSitement Illumination Expeditions ArtsEdge will relaunching their site soon
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 9 Read/Write/Think Extends its lesson plans from K-8 to K-12
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 10 More Tools Many interactive activities added to partner sites under student tools
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 11 Free Online Session WebEx Awareness session 1 hour session Phone and Internet access needed
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 12 Training Materials All training materials can be dowloaded for free: downloaded for freedownloaded for free New teachers guide New brochure New Poster Online Flash Tour Online Flash tourOnline Flash tour
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 13
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 14 MarcoPolo Teacher as Final Arbiter
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 15 Training in Hawaii Fact Sheet Training Results Total No. of Educators Trained1,2882,7764,064 % of Public Schools with Field Trainers-- 81% % of Private Schools with Field Trainers-- 8% Cadre Training No. of Scheduled & Completed Trainings Rate the Trainer Mean (out of 5) Rate the Training Mean (out of 5) Field Training No. of Scheduled & Completed Trainings Rate the Trainer Mean (out of 5) Rate the Training Mean (out of 5)
© 2002 MarcoPolo Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Part 2 Slide 16 Content Quality 5 (excellent) % 4 (good) % 3 (average) % 2 (fair) % 1 (poor) % Hawaii Teachers rate MarcoPolo Content How would you rate the QUALITY of the content (lesson plans, links, and other resources) on the MarcoPolo web sites? Mean: /25/2003 (1,888 respondents)