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Welcome Kentucky Certified Trainer Candidates
MarcoPolo Trainer Certification WorkshopSeptember 23-24, 2004
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Agenda Components
Welcome: Introductions & Expectations 9:00Review Pre-Session Assignment 9:15The Instructional Cycle-
Sample Lessons & Activities 9:20
MarcoPolo Consortium Partner Presentations 9:45ScienceNetLinks Calendar == Guided TourEconEdLink MarcoPolo Content IndexEdSiteMent MarcoQuestArts Edge MarcoGram; Partner Site Talking PointsReadWriteThink Elem. & Sec. Guides, interactive partner site mapsIlluminations Trainer MarcoGramXpeditions Guided Tour
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Getting to Know Your Audience 1:00 (Challenges & Expectations)
Kentucky Strategies 1:15
MarcoPolo Overviews3:15
Training challenges – rollout 3:30Wrap-up, reflections
3:50Adjourn 4:00
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Friday 9:00Teacher and Professional Development
ResourcesStrategies for using resourcesRusticello (Felice Nightengale) 9:30Lunch 11:30ICFC framework, Library of sample lessons,
Trainer MarcoGram, ISTE NETS-T 12:30Kentucky Time 1:30 Rollout strategies & responsibilities – DO THE
MATHWrap-Up & Reflection; Survey 3:30Adjourn 3:45
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Agenda Components
Review Pre-Session Assignment and materials
The Instructional Cycle
Sample Lessons & Activities
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Guiding Questions• What type of Internet-based resource is this?
• Where will teachers use this activity in the Teaching Instructional Cycle?
• What teaching strategy will they use to integrate the resource?
• How will they deal with equipment issues?
• What other resources can they use in conjunction with this resource?
• What kind of student products will be produced?
Sample Lesson
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Teaching Instructional Cycle
Opening Motivational
Activity
CoreLesson Plan
Activity
AssessmentActivity
Post-LessonEnrichment
Activity
ICFC Framework, TTK page 154 applies throughout the cycle!
Opening Motivational Activity
•Play audio and video clips
•Have students use interactive applets
•Sponge activity
•This day in history
Core Lesson Plan Activity
•Use lesson plan “out of the box”
•Adapt lesson plan to your needs
•Insert new resources/strategies into an existing lesson plan
•Use as a tool for research
•Create your own lesson plan
Post-Lesson Enrichment ActivityLook for online quizzes, games, and other activities that provide immediate feedback
“Re-teaching”
Assessment Activity
If they can “DO” it, they know it
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Sample Lessons & Learning Activities
http://illuminations.nctm.org/imath/3-5/GeometricSolids/index.html
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Framework For Integrating ICFC
Types of Internet Content
Teaching Materials
Online Presentation
s
Learning Activities
Internet Excursions
Internet Partnerships
Portable content in reproducible
formats.
Examples: maps, charts, tables,
graphs, timeline, images, articles,
worksheets, activities and
handouts.
Information delivered in an
interactive format.
Examples: online exhibits, guided
tours, documentaries,
slide shows, videos, and audio clips.
Content designed to promote discovery,
decision making, problem solving
and critical thought.
Examples: multiple-choice games, puzzles,
quizzes, fill-in-the-blank forms and
calculators, interactive exhibits,
simulations.
Programs that link students to
an ongoing event.
Examples: a space mission, a
political campaign, an
expedition to the Artic.
Programs that link students to their peers in other schools
and other countries.
Examples: keypal programs,
cooperative research
programs.
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What types of ICFC did you see?
Types of Internet Content
Teaching Materials
Online Presentation
s
Learning Activities
Internet Excursions
Internet Partnerships
Student handouts Interactive applet;
could also be downloaded to the classroom
or lab computer
4 steps in lesson plan;
varied strategies for using the applets to
“illuminate” mathematical concepts (cooperative learning, independent activities, etc.); also using hands-
on “manipulatives”
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A Framework For Integrating ICFC
6. What kind of student
products will be produced?
6. What kind of student
products will be produced?
5. What other resources can I
use in conjunction
with this resource?
5. What other resources can I
use in conjunction
with this resource?
4. How will I deal with
equipment issues?
4. How will I deal with
equipment issues?
3. What teaching
strategy will I use to integrate the resource?
3. What teaching
strategy will I use to integrate the resource?
2. Where will I use this activity in the Teaching
Instructional Cycle?
2. Where will I use this activity in the Teaching
Instructional Cycle?
1. What type of
resource is this?
1. What type of
resource is this?
MarcoPolo ICFC
Framework
MarcoPolo ICFC
Framework
Guiding Questions
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2. Where will I use this activity in the Teaching
Instructional Cycle?
2. Where will I use this activity in the Teaching
Instructional Cycle?
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3. What teaching
strategy will I use to integrate the resource?
3. What teaching
strategy will I use to integrate the resource?
Curriculum Enrichment
Infuse new content into your current lesson plans and
lectures
Lesson Enhancement
Open a new dimension for learning in your
classroom
Learning Experience
Create your own content by charting a
path of discovery through cyberspace
Teaching Tool
Use the interactive nature of the Internet to engage students in inquiry-based learning
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4. How will I deal with
equipment issues?
4. How will I deal with
equipment issues?
•Low Tech•High Tech
How will you account for your specific classroom configuration?
Will you conduct the lesson high tech or low tech? How?
•One Computer •Mini lab •Full lab
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5. What other
resources can I use in conjunction
with this resource?
5. What other
resources can I use in conjunction
with this resource?
6. What kind of student
products will be
produced?
6. What kind of student
products will be
produced?
•Word Processing
•Database/Spreadsheet/Graphic Organizer
•Presentation Software
•Web Page Creation
•Written •Oral •Visual
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Students will use a spreadsheet program to make collect the data about the different shapes. Student groups will create a slide show presentation using HyperStudio or PowerPoint and explain their conclusion to their classmates.
Let’s Review Our Sample Lesson
1. What type of
resource is this?
1. What type of
resource is this?
2. Where will I use this activity in the Teaching
Instructional Cycle?
2. Where will I use this activity in the Teaching
Instructional Cycle?
3. What teaching
strategy will I use to integrate the resource?
3. What teaching
strategy will I use to integrate the resource?
4. How will I deal with
equipment issues?
4. How will I deal with
equipment issues?
5. What other resources can I
use in conjunction
with this resource?
5. What other resources can I
use in conjunction
with this resource?
6. What kind of student
products will be produced?
6. What kind of student
products will be produced?
Learning Activity
Central component of lesson plan
Student handouts;Online learning
I have 20 students, 4 computers, so we will work in small collaborative groups. Each student will have their own “job” to do within the group: mouse operator, recorder, etc.
Finished spreadsheets and/or multimedia presentations.
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Agenda Components
Partner Site PresentationsMarcoPolo Consortium
ScienceNetLinks Guided TourEconEdLink MarcoPolo Content IndexEdSiteMent MarcoQuestArts Edge MarcoGram; Partner Site Talking PointsReadWriteThink Elem. & Sec. Guides, interactive partner site mapsIlluminations Trainer MarcoGramXpeditions Guided Tour
What other options do you use?What sequence do you use and WHY?
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You may take a flash tour to find out!http://www.marcopolo-education.org/about/new.aspx
What is MarcoPolo?
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What is MarcoPolo?• Partnership between leading educational
organizations and MarcoPolo Education Foundation
• Standards-based Internet Content for the Classroom (ICFC)
• Discipline-specific websites• Lesson Plans• Reviewed Web Sites• Student Interactives• Professional development support• Easily accessible on-line materials at NO COST• ALL Focused on helping students learn
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MarcoPolo Content Partners
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Partner Site Exploration
Common Features of the Partners Sites
Partner Site Overviews
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Agenda Components
Teacher and Professional Development Resources (In-Depth)
Strategies for using resources
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Field Trainer MarcoGram e-newsletter
Online Trainer Resource CenterPrinted Training Materials
MarcoPolo Professional Development
Resources
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MarcoPolo Resources
New Users Page–MarcoPolo Audio Flash Tour (+ 20 minutes)
–Free Awareness Sessions (WebEx)
Teacher Resources–Featured Resources, New Lessons and MarcoPolo Calendar
Trainer Resources–Trainer Toolbox, Trainer Resource Center,
Field Trainer MarcoGrams
State Resources–Research and State Alignment Web Sites
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Teacher Resources
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MarcoPolo Calendar
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MarcoPolo Calendar
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MarcoPolo Calendar
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MarcoGrams
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MarcoGrams
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MarcoGrams (Cont.)
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Prof Development Resources
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Interactive Partner Site Maps Interactive maps which provide overview, content and navigational features for each Partner Site.
Partner Talking Points This comprehensive overview will help you become well-versed about each Content Partner Web site.
Internet Content for the Classroom (ICFC) Interactive Framework
This interactive framework outlines and links to examples of different types of Internet content, as well as various strategies for integrating this content into the curriculum. The Framework is available online and in Part 4 of the Training CD.
Online Trainer Resource Center
MarcoPolo Professional Development
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Rollout Network
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Research
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Research
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Research
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Electronic Resources
•Teachers can create/adopt/adapt standards-based lesson plans electronically
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Electronic Resources
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Partner Site Presentations Workshop
Who is this audience???
PONDER:– Tech comfort level: low medium high mixed– What technology do we have?– How will they be using MP?
• Field Trainer• Building Level “Ambassador”• Classroom teacher – “end user”• Administrator
– Grade level: elementary middle school secondarymixed
What resources will best meet the needs of this audience?
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Getting to Know Your Audience
Before Training Session– Review Cadre Logistics Form
(CLF)– Talk to Site Contact– Check Trainer Resource Center
Audience Inventory– Data Sheet
Beginning of Training Session– Poll Attendees (Sticky Notes)– “Affinity Diagram”– WebEx veterans – POLL feature– Other techniques???
Throughout the Training Session– Watch for "Hot" Issues– Review Your Agenda– Revisit Your Challenges
throughout the Day
http://marcopolo-education.org/documents/training_resource/Audience_Inventory.doc
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http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
Partner Site Presentations Workshop
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ReadWriteThink Applet
MarcoPolo Content
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Partner Site Presentations Workshop
In a 6-8 minute presentation of the partner site.
Include:(THINK --- Standards – what should people know or be able to do with MarcoPolo?)– Overview– Lessons– Links– Activities– Standards– WOW Factor– Professional development aspects
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MarcoPolo Search Engine
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MarcoPolo Search Engine
4 Search Features
Teacher Guides Page 6
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Partner Developed Content /
Partner Reviewed Content Delineation
SpellcheckerPhrase Splitting
MarcoPolo Search EngineEnhancements
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MarcoPolo Search Engine
Enhanced Search Engine - summary–Search Again
–Improved Delineation between Partner Developed and Partner Reviewed Content
–Spell Checking
–Thesaurus
–Phrase Splitting
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Sample Comparison Search: Poet
MarcoPolo678 Partner-developed or panel-reviewed K-12 resources
YahooSponsors, advertising and 2.4 million resources for education, commerce, entertainment, etc.
Poet Software Corporation
Advertisement: Poet In My Window CD
Sponsor match: Poetry contest $58,000 in prizes!
Google2.7 million commercial and non-commercial web sites
Category Match : Content Management Software
Poet Software Corporation
The Poet’s Corner – File not Found
MarcoPolo Search Engine
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MarcoPolo Search Engine
Yahoo Search Engine
How Does MarcoPolo Compare?
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Agenda Components
MarcoPolo Overview
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MarcoPolo Overview
What are the key things you want your attendees to know about MarcoPolo?– Lessons and Links ICFC– Teacher resources –
• Quality• Based on National Standards • Developed or tested by teachers
– Partnerships• Content Partners --Reviewed, approved
content• State Partnerships
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MarcoPolo Overview
What are the key things you want your attendees to know about MarcoPolo?– Professional Development
• Train the Trainer model
– Search Engine– A variety of Resources –
• Electronic• Hard Copy
– Aligned with ISTE
– F R E E
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Agenda Components
Kentucky Standards & Resources
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Kentucky
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Kentucky
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Kentucky
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Goals & Strategies
Number of Schools 1,449 Number of Schools with
MarcoPolo Trainers 408 Number of Districts 182 Number of Districts with
MarcoPolo Trainers 126 Number of Teachers 50,610 Number of MarcoPolo
Educators 5,794
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Goals & Strategies DO the Math
How many schools in Kentucky?1,500
How many educators in Kentucky?50,000
How many Certified Trainers in Kentucky20
1,500 / 20 = __75__ + schools50,000 / 20 = __2,500__ + educators
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Goals & Strategies Goal Setting
How many schools can you impact?Directly ??Indirectly ??
How many educators can you impact?
??‘‘A teacher effects eternity; A teacher effects eternity;
you can never tell where your influence ends.’you can never tell where your influence ends.’
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Goals and Strategies
MarcoPolo 2005 Goals: To have a MarcoPolo presence in every school in the
country To make every educator in the country aware of
MarcoPolo
Roll-out Strategy: Train the trainer
Roll-out Goals: To provide a strategy for sharing MarcoPolo resources with teachers in your building, district, or state.
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Goals and Strategies
MarcoPolo 2005 Goals: To have a MarcoPolo presence in every school in the
country To make every educator in the country aware of MarcoPolo
Example: Train every single educator ONE AT A TIME
Example: Train Department Chairs to rollout the training in their respective departments
Example: Train Library Media Specialists in every building
Example: Train …?
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Promoting MarcoPolo in Your Region
Provide MarcoPolo Training Options on state or local Web sites
Distribute MarcoPolo brochures at local conferences, awareness sessions, or through district mail with cover letter
Host MarcoPolo cyber cafe at local conference or district level meeting
Email potential Field Trainers the MarcoPolo Audio Flash Tour
Use MarcoPolo Free WebEx Awareness Session to provide demo session for potential attendees
Send MarcoGrams in the context of an awareness email to local educators
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“Sharing MarcoPolo”Overview and Workshop
1. Identifying Your Target Audience
2. Determining Your Purpose and Delivery Strategy
3. Setting Goals
4. Creating an Implementation Template
5. Developing Your Agenda
6. Following up with Your Audience
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Sharing MarcoPolo Complete the RFT (Request For Training)(30 days)
• Certified Trainer can fill out RFT and CLF on behalf of organization
• Certified Trainer can have organization complete RFT• Insert a note in question 10 of the RFT notifying the Foundation
that you are the trainer assigned to the session
Complete CLF (Cadre Logistics Form) (20 days)
Assign yourself as the Scheduling Contact Assign the requestor as the Site Contact
*Note: Please do not enter Field Training Sessions in this RFT process
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Maintaining Certified Trainer Status
MarcoPolo Certified Trainers (MPCT):
Maintain Trainer and Training mean of 4.5+
Complete at least ___ Trainer Sessions yearly
Attend MarcoPolo Update Sessions
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Wrap-up & Reflection
Well, what have you learned today?
What do we do tomorrow?
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Agenda Components
GOOD MORNING & WELCOME BACK
Rusticello
Welcome to WebEx
http://marcopolo.webex.com
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Agenda Components
Rusticello
Welcome to WebEx
http://marcopolo.webex.com
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Rusticello
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Sample Lessons & Learning Activities
Resources:
– “MarcoPolo Hot Links”
– Library of Sample Lessons
– Teacher’s Guides
– MarcoGrams– MarcoPolo
Calendar
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Strategies for USING ICFC Strategies:
– Show Relevant Resources
– Address Realistic
Teaching Concerns
– Adopt vs. Adapt– Integrate with
Search Engine, Partner Site Overviews
– Hunting & Gathering
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Agenda Components
ISTE NETSInternational Society for
Technology in EducationNational Educational
Technology StandardsTeachers
AdministratorsStudents
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ISTE 100 Partnership
MarcoPolo has already received exposure on the May 2003 issue of Learning and Leading with Technology, and through a dedicated page on the ISTE Web site.
Alignment of MarcoPolo Professional Development materials and training paradigm to NETS for Teachers
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N E T S Standards for Teachers
I. TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS AND CONCEPTS.Teachers demonstrate a sound understanding of technology operations and concepts.
II. PLANNING AND DESIGNING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND EXPERIENCES.Teachers plan and design effective learning environments and experiences supported by technology.
III. TEACHING, LEARNING, AND THE CURRICULUM.Teachers implement curriculum plans, that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning.
IV. ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION.Teachers apply technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies.
V. PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.Teachers use technology to enhance their productivity and professional practice.
VI. SOCIAL, ETHICAL, LEGAL, AND HUMAN ISSUES.Teachers understand the social, ethical, legal, and human issues surrounding the use of technology in PK-12 schools and apply those principles in practice.
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N E T S Standards for Teachers
What standards/learning goals are met by this resource? How will I use the resource within the Teaching
Instructional Cycle?– Core Lesson Plan Activity– Opening Motivational Activity– Post-Lesson Enrichment Activity– Assessment Activity
What are my technology/equipment considerations? (NETS-T 2)– How many computers do I have: none, one, mini-lab, full lab?– What if the Internet slows down or goes down?– What other resources can I use? (overhead projector, printer, plug-ins,
desktop software, low-tech resources etc.)
What activities will the students and I perform? (NETS-T 3) – How can I keep the student’s “on task?”– How will I assess student achievement?– How can I manage a classroom environment?
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ICFC in the Teacher’s Instructional Cycle
Day One Agenda Component
NETS-T Standard Day Two Agenda Component
NETS-T Standard
Welcome & Introductions
Day One Review
Getting to Know Your Audience (Challenges & Expectations)
II ICFC Learning Activity Development with MarcoPolo
II, III, IV,V,VI
MarcoPolo Overview ICFC Learning Activity Development with MarcoPolo Workshop
II, III, IV,V,VI
Sample Lessons & Activities
II, III, IV Preparing to Conduct Field Training
II, V
Search Engine I,V Preparing to Conduct Field Training Workshop
II, V
Partner Site Explorations
II, III, IV
NETS for Teacher Standard I is illustrated throughout the training paradigm.Teacher & PD
ResourcesII, III, V
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Wrap-up & Reflection
Well, what have you learned today?
What do we do from here?
How do we keep in touch?
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Kentucky Certified Trainer Candidates
REFLECTREFLECT
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Reflections/Survey
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out our survey!
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Kentucky Certified Trainers
Thank YOUThank YOU
AndAnd
CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS