In order to begin formulating a plan to deliver instruction to our teachers, the media specialist and I met to begin brainstorming ideas of where to begin. Our teacher population ranges from teachers in their first year to teachers that have returned from retirement to continue teaching. Based on feedback from teachers that attended an initial training overview which took place just prior to school beginning, teachers in grades two through five indicate the greatest desire to move towards a paperless classroom by utilizing Google Classroom. We determined that first and foremost, teachers would need help with student logins due to the fact that the majority of students were using the school's generic username and password rather than logging in using the students' individual logins. We determined that a survey would be developed and sent to teachers to help in determining their needs and interests.
During our hour long planning session, a tentative schedule for helping students begin using their district issued username and passwords were discussed as well as the use of Technology Thursdays to offer teachers individual or small group help with Google Classroom. Due to the busy schedules of many of our teachers with after-school clubs, teaching enrichment classes and tutoring, we realized that many of the sessions may have a low attendance so we decided to share the tutorials via a shared Google 'How To' folder and also to place the tutorials on our school network shared drive. We also determined it would be necessary to offer individual sessions as needed also.
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