Self-Paced Training
New Curriculum & Lesson Planning Platforms
As you may know, the Teaching & Learning Team has been hard at work this year migrating all of the curriculum documents to make them easier to access. In addition, we have created a new lesson plan template. We believe these big changes will ultimately make accessing these documents and creating lesson plans more efficient for Birdville teachers.
Beginning in the 2017-18 school year, your curriculum documents will be accessed through Canvas. Your lesson plans will be completed in Google Drive. We know these changes may be challenging to some at first, but we also know they will make things easier for you in the long term.
With the help of your Digital Learning Team, we have created a self-paced course to train you to access the curriculum documents and create lesson plans. The course is designed to take approximately 2 hours to complete. You may complete the course over several shorter sessions if necessary.
This training is required to be completed by all teaching staff by August 21, 2017. The following opportunities are available for completing the training:
1. Complete this self-paced course on your own
2. Sign up for a face-to-face session to complete the self-paced course with experts in the room to help you when needed (see below for more information)
3. On either August 15 or August 17, you will have time during district professional learning to complete this course with experts in the room to help when needed
Upon completion of the course you will receive a certificate via email. Your administrator may require you to forward this certificate to him/her as proof that you have completed the training.
Ready by August 2017
New Curriculum and Lesson Planning Platforms
Everyone in BISD will have the opportunity to get set up and learn how to use the new curriculum and lesson planning platforms through this self-paced, digital training beginning in May. In August 2017, everyone will have another opportunity for face-to-face training during district professional learning time.