summertrainingplanning

Summer 2008 Promethean Training Planning Page
Summer is upon us and it's time to get ready to do some training! Thank you for agreeing to help with our training!

Scheduling and Location Choices
The table below lists the location and dates of training. If you can work at a particular site and date, **please put an X in the box**. If you have no preferences on where or when you work, **please put an X in all of the boxes you're interested in**. If you have a preferred location on one date, but could work either location if necessary, **put a P in the box by your preferred location and an X in the other**.

June 16-19 || Myers Park High June 16-19 || West Mecklenburg High July 21-24 || Mallard Creek High July 21-24 || Butler High August 11-14 || South Charlotte Middle August 11-14 || 7/7/08 12:00 PM** || **18** || **CLASS** CANCELED || 9 || **21** || **21** || **17** ||
 * || Hopewell High
 * **Enrollment:
 * Shawna Harvey || x || x || P || x || x || P ||
 * Melissa Matusiak ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   || P ||
 * Kathy Berlin ||  || P ||   ||   || x || P ||
 * Adele Fielding ||  ||   ||   ||   || P ||   ||
 * Jaime Massey ||  ||   || P || X || X || X ||
 * Lisa Ashe ||  ||   || X || P || X || X ||
 * Cheryl (Hill) Osborne ||  ||   ||   ||   || X || X ||
 * Marissa Ruland ||  || X || P ||   ||   || X ||
 * Laura Spencer ||  ||   || P ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Renee Brice ||  ||   ||   ||   || x || x ||
 * Scott Spohler ||  || P ||   ||   || X ||   ||
 * Lauren Brown ||  || P ||   ||   || X ||   ||
 * Jake Standish ||  || X ||   ||   ||   || X ||
 * Annie Toth || X || P || X || X || X || X ||
 * Adole Tounou ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Beverly Woodward ||  ||   ||   ||   || P || X ||
 * John Cox ||  ||   ||   ||   || X ||   ||
 * Shenique Mens ||  ||   || X || P ||   || X ||
 * Meana Hastings ||  ||   ||   || P || P || X ||
 * Hema Lalwani ||  ||   ||   ||   || X ||   ||
 * Mike Kowalski || x || x || x || x || x || x ||

=Questions and Answers about training:=

A. Yes. You will be paid based on your current degree. Bachelors Degrees earn $25/hour, Masters earn $30/hour, and Doctorates earn $35 (confirmed). Our budgets are currently locked through July 14th, so any work during the June trainings will not be able to be paid until after July 14th.
 * Q. Will I get paid? (notice I made this one first!)**

A. The training will be very similar to the training you completed after receiving your grant. The training will last 3 days, Tuesday-Thursday from 8:30 - 3:30, with an hour for lunch. Teachers in the training will be offered laptop computers from student carts for use during the training, but will also be able to bring their personal laptop to the training for use (we'll install the software on their personal machine). Depending on enrollment, teachers may be asked to share a CMS laptop for the training. You will use the same training flipchart pages that we used during the training. Teachers will not be issued laptops like you were, so we won't do any of the laptop training that you completed. On the Monday of your training week, you will be conducting a 2-hour Orientation on the board. There is one scheduled for 9-11 AM and one from 1-3 PM. The full Promethean training is Tuesday - Thursday. We will have a Training Meeting to cover information about the training. That date has not been set yet.
 * Q.How will the training work? Will we be trained on how to train?**

A. Classes will be capped at 20, with a minimum of 10. If we have 30 people sign up for the class, we'll make 2 classes of 15. If we have 22 people sign up, we'll only have 1 class of 20. We will try to reschedule the others to another location or date. It's just not cost-effective to pay trainers for a class of less than 10.
 * Q. What is the class size?**

A. You will be paired with another trainer. In an ideal world, a "veteran" teacher (one who got their board in the fall) and a "rookie" teacher (one who got their board in the spring) will be paired together. If possible, you will be paired with someone from your own school. There will also be at least 1 Instructional Technology staff member (Neal Farley or Tim Cooper) present and we're working to get a representative from Promethean at each training site.
 * Q. Will I be training by myself?**

A. If we don't have enough demand for a class, we won't hold it. Each class must have at least 10 people in it, with a maximum of 20. I'll do my best to make sure that everyone gets to teach at least one session, but can't make any guarantees. If we have less than 10 people sign up for a class at one site, we'll try to move them to another site or another date.
 * Q. If I can train, will I train?**
 * Best case scenario**: Everyone who wants to teach, teaches. **Worst case scenario**: Not enough CMS teachers are interested in the classes and none of the classes will "make." I don't see the Worst Case happening, but I guess it's possible.

Got more questions? Post them here and I'll answer them! //-tim//