New Haven Public Schools
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PURPOSE:

To develop teaching teams who can train other teachers to use the Internet as a curriculum resource.

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT:

Interested candidates met at an information session to take a pre-test and see models of the products they would be asked to create. Two participants from 44 sites (including 8 private and parochial schools and the Public Library), where one participant was the school LMS, were selected for four days of training the first year, and five days the second year. Through training at our Regional Educational Service agency for the county, ACES, teams of teachers and library media specialists have created a professional development website, including a curriculum-related project that utilizes resources from the World Wide Web. Projects demonstrate participants' experience with Internet search strategies, the identification and assessment of appropriate curriculum-related websites, and website development. Each team trained other teachers at their schools, using their website projects, which are published on the Web through the use of FrontPage98. Through a strong focus on the integration of the Internet into the curriculum, participants earned many other computer skills, such as word-processing, creating and utilizing electronic images, desktop publishing and multi-media integration.

GOALS for the second year of training (in terms of Expectations)

At the end of the 5 sessions, participants will:

• Develop search strategies on the Internet.
• Demonstrate how to identify and assess curriculum-related websites.
• Create a website with FrontPage98 that can be a useful tool for professional development.
• Select and publish a list of curriculum related websites for one or more teachers in the school (as part of their professional development tool).
• Create and publish on the WWW a curriculum project with FrontPage98.
• Use what they have learned and created to provide professional development to members of a school staff.