". . . with the facilitators help we will leave with a plan that I think will be really
useful for my staff. I don't think I have ever taken a class that has been so useful
and so exciting and so relevant and so well done!!!" -- Michigan LInC participant and facilitator |
- Long-term commitment to teacher education.
- Administrative infrastructure to offer a course.
- Technical infrastructure to offer an online course.
(Some free services for chat, bulletin board and listservs are currently available on the Internet.)
- A team of three to five people including two to three K-12 educators and one or two agency staff, all of whom are receptive to the constructivist teaching philosophy and possess these basic computer, e-mail, and Web browser skills). Prior experience teaching an online course is not needed. Prior experience facilitating some type of staff development by one or more team members is desirable.
- Participate in the LInC online course and face-to-face Facilitators' Academy.
- Design and teach a similar online course and academy with a "lead" facilitator from Fermilab who will handle the work of overall course flow in order to allow new facilitators to devote their energies to coaching participant teams.
- Facilitate and lead their next online course and academy with guidance from a Fermilab mentor.
- Offer their online course and academy on a regular basis for the next 3-5 years (after the period of the grant).
Partner teams may wish to tailor the course to suit their goals and audience. Examples of this might include changes such as adapting the online course to
- Target preservice teachers.
- Be completely asynchronous.
- Add a multiple intelligences component.
- Conform to a particular university's credit structure.
- etc.
Having team of 4-6 educators take LInC online Winter 2001 Participating in Facilitator Academy at Fermilab Summer 2001
Implementing LInC projects in classrooms Fall 2001 Teaching LInC online course w/ Fermilab lead Winter 2002 Teaching Facilitator Academy w/ Fermilab lead Summer 2002
Teaching LInC online course w/ Fermilab mentor Fall 2002 Teaching LInC online course independently Winter 2003 Teaching Facilitator Academy w/ Fermilab mentor Summer 2003
Teaching LInC course 5 more times in a region, state or nationally next 3-5 years Teaching LInC Facilitator Academy 3 more times in a region, state or nationally next 3-5 years