Description of End Products for the

Facilitators' Academy

Course Participation:

During the Facilitators' Academy we provide work time each day so that you can complete some of the required tasks. It is not the expectation that you will complete all of the tasks while you are here, but we hope you will take advantage of the time that is provided.

End Products:

The end product for the Facilitators' Academy is to have a written plan and materials for offering staff development in your own school or district that shares what you have learned in the LInC course. The staff development that you plan must match the needs of your participants. In some cases the participants are ready for a full LInC course. Other times they are ready for smaller doses of engaged learning. Your goal is to match the needs of your school or district and create a staff development plan that will teach them engaged learning and best use of technology. No matter what level of staff development you are creating, you will want to create organizational and management tools to make the course flow easily before you start your course.

You will have time during the Facilitators' Academy to begin work on these tools and pages. You will also have the opportunity to share with the whole group what you have accomplished.

Required Tasks:

  1. Updated LInC Partnership Program Plan or LInC Staff Development Plan.
  2. Home Page for your course - See the Winter 2001 home page for ideas.
  3. Assignment Page for students to see what they need to complete
  4. Discussion Schedule - Chat/Meeting schedule with topics and rooms. This needs to be coordinated with your assignment sheet. (If not, you may find you have asked participants to discuss a topic in a chat that requires a task/reading that is not assigned until after the chat :-)

  5. Lead Facilitation / Mentoring Agreement
  6. Class Policy and Requirements Page - Explain your attendance policy, grading policy, late policy, and participation policy. What will be required of the participants to successfully complete the course? What work must be turned in individually? What work can be turned in as a team?
  7. Work Completed Page for students to check their own progress. This should be coordinated with the assignment page.

  8. Course Announcement - You can look at the Winter 1999 LInC Announcement or Winter 2001 LInC Announcement for ideas. Please do not copy and paste hardware and software requirements verbatim. These need to be adjusted for your specific course based on the requirements for the chat, bulletin board, and Web editor software you have chosen. These need to be adjusted annually because the requirements can change with each new version of software used. Also please adjust the commitment to match your course's requirements. Your participants are not required to conduct a full LInC course or even an online course. Instead, they will create a smaller dissemination plan that is developed for their school's/district's situation. The only exception to this is participants you invite to take your course and academy with the understanding that they will join your facilitator team upon successful completion.

  9. Course Syllabus - You can look at the LInC course syllabus for ideas. Do this assignment if you will be offering your course for credit and cannot use the existing LInC syllabus. Many universities require a syllabus to be submitted in a university-specific format. You can copy and paste from the LInC syllabus as needed (rather than re-inventing the whole wheel) provided you include an acknowledgement with a link to the Fermilab LInC syllabus.

  10. Site-Specific Technical Information - Servers, Directories, Tools used during class
    (Do not post account names or passwords on the web.)
  11. Postings and Organization for your Bulletin Board
  12. Draft letters to participants - Welcome to whole group; welcome from primary facilitator
  13. Draft facilitator introductions for posting on the bulletin board.

Final Grade:

 Criteria for Assessment

 Percentage
Staff Development Action Plan Rubric

 20%
Staff Development Components Rubric

 70%
 Participation and Attendance

10%

 Total

100%