Gary Community School Corporation Intranet Training Program

Gary Community School Corporation Intranet Training Program

Provided by

WPI Consultants, Inc.

To: From:

Dr. Myrtle Campbell Warrien Poole

Superintendent Instructional Designer

Gary Community School Corporation WPI Consultants, Inc.

620 E. 10th Ave.

Gary, Indiana 46407

(219) 886-6400

Web: www.garycsc.k12.in.us

Contents

Executive Summary ………………………………………………………………………3

Background of the Problem ………………………………………………………………4

Analysis of the Problem …………………………………………………………………..5

Target Population ………………………………………………………………………….6

Rationale and Goals ………………………………………………………………………7

Learning Objectives …………………………………………………………………….....8-9

Evaluation Strategies ……………………………………………………………………..10

Program Outline …………………………………………………………………………...11-12

Training Resources ………………………………………………………………………..13

Executive Summary

This project will focus on the use of online learning to build the capacity of the Gary Community School Corporation (GCSC) to provide quality professional development to enable administrators and teachers to integrate technology into the curriculum to meet the required standards. Today's global competition challenges school districts to improve student achievement through the use of technology, to raise student technology literacy, and to ensure that teachers integrate technology into the curriculum effectively. WPI Consultants will train faculty teams participating in this project to be Intranet Course Design and Delivery Specialists who will design and deliver a rigorous program of standards-based technology-enhanced intranet courses for teachers and administrators across all subject areas and grade levels in the Gary Community School Corporation. Participants will also be trained to use Intranet tools to evaluate the effectiveness of the Intranet professional development courses, and to use Intranet assessment techniques to measure the impact of the Intranet courses on teacher practice and student achievement.

Background of Problem

Many of the professional development programs that are currently offered to teachers fail to provide the kind of ongoing support teachers need to make effective use of educational technology, and as a result, few teachers are in a position to integrate new technologies into their classroom practices. Teachers may attend a one-day workshop and return to school the following day not knowing how or having the time to integrate what they learned into their curricula, or they may lack the support from colleagues that is necessary for their attempts to be successful. To be successful in their endeavors to learn and implement new technologies, teachers need hands-on learning rooted in their own curricula that will enable them to translate training into practice.

Like many educators, teachers and administrators in the Gary Community School Corporation juggle a number of diverse and time-consuming responsibilities, and scheduling time for ongoing professional development or productive interaction with colleagues can be extremely difficult. Educators need to be able to participate in professional development courses whenever and wherever it is convenient for them: before or after school, during a free planning period