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Students Technology LeadersProviding Technology Staff Training
STAFF CONTACT: Tina Murray STUDENT CONTACT /S : |
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Students "claimed" staff and became their technology mentors for the entire 97/98 school year. Both staff and students agreed to meet at least once a week for a minimum of 20 minutes. During this time direct instruction was given to the staff member by a student technology leader to advance the staff member's personal & professional technology skills. STL's actually worked with two other elementary schools, a middle school, an early childhood program AND our own staff here at Shabazz High School.
It became clear in the beginning that before any training could occur a couple things needed to happen: 1) existing equipment needed to be evaluated and user modifications / repairs needed to occur. 2) training content needed to be directly related to staff needs, be they learning how to use EMAIL, integrating existing knowledge/skills into the curriculum or advance a specific project idea of staff member; targeted skills would be obtained through pusposeful projects.
Students were evaluated on numerous scales and methods ranging from informal to formal, including a rubric. Areas evaluated included two different technological areas, curriculum mastery, work readiness, and leadership qualities.
Students were individually rated on:
| 15 areas of technical curriculum broken into two areas, mechanics (operating systems, hardware and printers) and process (software applications,manuevering network,email,basic & advanced internet, peripheral use, graphic & multimedia applications), rated on a scale of 1(least) to 20 (most). |
| Staff improvement after student mentoring in these same 15 technical areas and the same scale. |
| 10 areas of work model expectations on a scale of 1(least) to 8 (most). These included Cooperation/Respect, Communications Skills, Work Quality, Initieative, Problem Solving, Dependability, Customer Service, Acceptance of Criticism, Personal Appearance and Attendance. |
| Leadership Qualities on a scale of 1(least) to 20 (most). |
| Attendance - scale of 0-8 absences. |
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| Mechanics & Process | 5.5 Units of Gain | 4.6 Units of Gain |
| Work Model Areas | 1.5 - 2.0 Average gain across all areas except "acceptance of criticism" and " personal appearance" which had 1 unit of gain | N/A |
| Leadership - Deliberately assists / guides others in actions, opinions, or attitudes. Takes initiative, follows through on ideas and commitments. Exceeds expectations of class curriculum. |
Out of 45 total leadership opportunities at Shabazz, STLP students participated in 14 involving technology and 24 not related to technology (86% of total opportunities). |
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Attendance - Shabazz has a strict attendance policy. Each student is allowed 7 absences. After that a student cannot receive academic credit. Same students were rated in this class and their other non service learning classes. |
Students averaged 50% fewer absences | N/A |
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