Communication plans
For a training session, you must design a timely communication plan that loops you and your teachers into a conversation. Develop action plans for training and communication to clarify goals, assess effectiveness, and determine the next steps with the community. Responding quickly and directly with the stakeholders helps you stay in touch with school goals. Developing an action plan to clarify goals, assess effectiveness, and determine next steps within the organization is an essential step in this communication process.
PRE: Start by contacting the school leader to gather information about the teachers and the school community. Record the information you receive directly from the school leaders and indirectly from classroom observations and walkthroughs. Make the time to analyze the data and build the agenda appropriately. Pre-session surveys are helpful as well to design an agenda based on the needs and interests of those attending your session. Collect different kinds of information from participants with a pre-session survey. Send out the agenda and resources by utilizing Google Accessibility where some of the Google tools have demo videos and links to learning keyboard shortcuts. Engage reluctant teachers by spending time building relationships with teachers, make the conversations about the student, and design authentic activities that are meaningful for classroom practice. It is important to gauge frustration levels and adjust pacing based on audience feedback, even if it means making adjustments to your agenda.
DURING: Create opportunities for real-time conversation and other collaborative activities that invite teachers to discuss and the trainer to observe. Take notes in a shared Google Doc so that the teachers can be a part of the collaborative note-taking process. Record conversations using your smartphone or tablet and upload it to your YouTube channel.
POST: Share next steps on Google Keep List as well as schedule them into your Google Calendar. Uaw Calendar notifications to stay in touch with the next steps and communicate ongoing support for all stakeholders. Copy and paste the link to the YouTube video for the teachers and leader to review the conversation as needed. Providing feedback allows trainers to personalize sessions, communicate, and plan more effectively for the next steps.
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Design a demo lesson plan that Includes clear communication before, during, and after the lesson. It also must clearly, determine which digital tools you want to use to gather and analyze lesson data. Demonstration lessons are best designed with clear communication before, during, and after the lesson with the teacher. Meet with the teachers prior to the lesson to understand the objectives, discuss the student reactions and lesson adjustments in real time, debrief the lesson afterward, and set up logical and realistic next steps for future demonstration lessons.
Track and manage agenda items with all your team members. Building a collaborative agenda inside of a Google Doc prior to a session helps capture the participants’ voices. It ensures more buy-in during the session and also invites the teachers to be active in the conversation when you are together in person. When you design the goals and objectives of training together, you increase the audience involvement and have a better chance of delivering feedback that truly matters to the attendees. Project Management Docs, Keep, Sheets, and Calendar The Apps Show.
- Developing an agenda
- Collecting or brainstorming problems
- Pitching problems to be solved
- Formulating the solution
- Presentation of solutions
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