Lauren Hyers Face-To-Face Staff Dev

Face to Face Staff DevelopmentLauren Hyers FRIT 7739

Part I

General Audience

The primary audience consist of eighteen certified high school teachers. The teachers teach a range of students from ages fourteen to eighteen. The audience is ranges by ages, gender, years of experience, certification levels, and subjects taught. The majority of the audience are math teachers. Several members of the audience teach other content areas as well as some elective classes.

Problem Identification

The school system recently began providing students with email accounts. The reason for emails are to provide students with the ability to use Google Apps and begin to learn how to use the internet safely. There are many teachers avoiding Google Apps, like Google Classroom, due to the lack of confidence in using the tools in their classroom although they have received several trainings through state department employees. Teachers are looking for ways to effectively and productively incorporate these apps into their lessons.

Instructional Goals

Participants will be able to create classes in Google Classroom

Participants will be able to to invite students and teachers to join a class

Participants will be able to create announcements, assignments, and lead discussions.

Participants will be able to add class materials for students to view/explore.

Participants will be able to grade and provide feedback on assignments.


Part II: Learner Analysis

Introduction

The targeted participants are 9th through 12th grade teachers of all subject areas. The participants ranged in age from 25 to 53 with the average age being 43. The group contains 12 females and 6 males. All males in the group are Caucasian. The female group is composed of 1 African American and 11 Caucasians. The participants range in levels of certification from a Bachelor’s degree to a Specialist degree. The experience level of the participants also range from 1 to 26 years in the field. The general demographics of the participants were found using an online questionnaire. This Title 1 school is composed of 76 teachers and 1094 students.

The information regarding the attitudes of participants towards Google Apps was acquired through observations and surveys.

Entry Characteristics

● Able to log on to computer ● Use basic computer skills

Prerequisite skills and knowledge

● Log into email● Have knowledge of proper use of computers● Able to apply information learned.

Common Misconceptions

The common misconceptions for using Google Classroom is it is too time consuming and only used as a form of reinforcement. One teacher mentioned they felt Google Classroom would take the place of the face to face teaching. The most common misconception of Google Classroom is the user must be technologically savvy in order to use Google Classroom.

Attitudes towards Content and Academic Motivation


The majority of the participants realized the importance of incorporating Google Apps, like Google Classroom, into their daily lessons. They recognize the direction the world is heading and want to prepare their students to be ready a digital world. All of the teachers implied they are comfortable using Google Apps by themselves, but not in front of the students. 100% of the participants felt their technological skills were not advanced enough to use Google Apps, but expressed their want to incorporate Google Classroom into their lessons. This information was obtained through an online questionnaire.

Educational Ability

All participants are considered highly-qualified teachers. Six of the participants obtain a Specialist Degree, seven obtain a Master’s Degree, and five obtain a Bachelor’s Degree. Four teachers are certified in Special Education, while Five are Gifted certified.

General Learning Preferences

The participants are interested in a hands on learning experience with an opportunity to explore Google Classroom..

Attitude toward Teacher and School

All participants show respect for administration and their school. They are appreciative of the trainings the school and administration are providing in support of them incorporating Google Apps, like Google Classroom, into their classrooms. It is obvious the school provides a positive learning and working environment for all faculty, staff, and students. The majority of the participants stated the presenter of the staff development was confident in Google Classroom and was available to help at all times.

Group Characteristics

All participants are highly-qualified, certified teachers at the high school level. The participants teach at a Title 1 school located in a rural area. The participants have many different job descriptions, but are all teachers to a group of students ranging from 9th to 12th grade.

Part III: Task Analysis


Introduction

The task analysis was conducted through a procedural analysis due to the learning experience being procedural. I started creating a detailed outline while keeping the end goal in mind. The end goal is for participants to be comfortable incorporating Google Classroom into their units and lessons. When creating the outline I walked through the exact steps the participants would have to do. I made sure to write notes if I thought something may work better in another phase of the presentation. After completing the task analysis I we back through it, step by step. I made a few more changes and now feel everything is in the appropriate place to ensure success for the participants.

Task Analysis

1.0 Login to school email

1.1 Leave tab open

2.0 Open Google Classroom

2.1 Using the google apps symbol open Google Classroom.

3.0 Student View of Google Classroom

3.1 Join a class using a class code

3.2 Discuss Stream, Classmates, and About

3.3 Announcements (http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/04/13/60-ways-

math-teachers-can-use-google-classroom/)

3.4 Discussions (Welcome to our class. What subject and grade do you teach?)

3.5 Assignments (Favorite sport and team)

3.6 Turn-In Assignments

3.7 Graded Assignments with feedback

3.8 Exit Class

4.0 Teacher View of Google Classroom

4.1 Create A Class

4.1.1 Rename and Delete

4.1.2 Select a Theme


4.1.3 Invite a Teacher

4.1.4 Take a Tour

4.2 Invite or Share with Students

4.2.1 Using a class code to invite students

4.3 Post to Stream

4.3.1 Post Announcements

4.3.2 Post Discussions

4.3.3 Create Assignments

4.4 Class Permissions

4.4.1 Students create, comment, or view

4.5 Adding Class Material

5.0 Time to Explore (Teachers are allowed to explore Classroom)

6.0 Complete Questionnaire in Google Forms

Lauren Hyers Face-To-Face Staff Dev

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