Teacher’s Workshop August 2019

First of all, Huge Thanks to Vipin, Venkat Rao uncle & Nagaraju for taking care of all the logistics for the meeting! 
In addition to the monthly Skype calls started in 2018, this face to face session with all the teachers was very successful in personally connecting to all the new and current teachers. We first level set expectations, Shared guidelines, and explained how to establish targets for each class. Also provided clarifications requested and explained our goal to bring standardization/consistency among all the teachers. A common location/ webpage on awarnessusa will be provided to all the teachers to save the students work. 
One to one mentor was assigned for all new teachers joined – Mentors will be calling/ checking with their assigned teacher at least on a weekly basis to help them where needed. This will be tracked for a 3 month period and purpose is: mentor/ current teacher shares his/her experience and guide the new teachers to be most productive as quickly as possible. 
First two competitions were discussed in detail and shared the expectation that teachers must ensure all the students learn/practice to get to the level of the winners – leverage the website, winning projects and students to teach. 
Competition project #3 was explained in detail as this combines 3 tools -MS Word, excel & PowerPoint. Per teachers suggestion, decided to add junior level competition for 7 th grade also. 
Had great discussions throughout the workshop and got some input/ideas from the teachers on curriculum, projects, schedule, etc. 
Next Skype call with al the teachers: September 14, 6 pm India time. 
Teachers first point of contact for any clarification and technical issues – Nagaraju
Action items and target dates:

1. Leverage winners and their projects the & Make all students practice the excel features and practice the Word – all teachers by February 28, 2020
2. Set up a formal Skype business call – Nagaraju by September 12 
3. Post in the website & Send/email the guidelines, standard check lists – Nagaraju by August 30th
4. Post on the website & email Project #3 details- Jyothi by September 12th.  

Project 3 – Due Dec. 13th, 2019

Here are the instructions for project 3 – Due Date December 13′ 2019 :
Project 3:  Write a report on TWO of your highest priority life goals (1. Professional goal & 2. Personal goal)

7th, 8th & 9th grade students – Create a report about your Goals (1. Professional goal & 2. Personal goal) using 3 tools: Microsoft Word, Excel & Power point.  7th  grade students will be graded at a different level then 8th & 9th grade students 

Objectives: 1. Capture students dreams and ideas into a 10 year goal plan that they can continue to use 

1. 2. Assess the students skills in MS Office tools (Word, Excel & PowerPoint together) learned so far  

Instructions:

MS Word Instructions: Text should be font of Arial and size 14. Please structure the report to have 6 section that address the topics listed below: 

Section #1 – Introducing TWO of your most important goals in life – (1. Professional goal & 2. Personal goal) 
This is introduction to your 2 of highest priority life goals. Tell us what your goals are and explain why they are your most important goals for you (Why & what you want to accomplish)  

Section #2 – Details on what is your plan next 5 years & next 10 years to accomplish your goals
Explain in detail on how and when you  plan to accomplish the goals – Describe where you will see yourself doing next 5 years (by 2024) first and then another 5 year (by 2029) and what is you plan you will be doing to get there – explain detail activities (How you want to accomplish) 

Section #3
Explain in detail on what results you expect first five years and then another 5 years 

Section #4
Tell us about some of the challenges you foresee and how you will be able to overcome those  

Section #4
This is a conclusion section to your report – Summarize your report 

Other requirements:

1. Have the tittle & sections centered, bold & underlined 
2. Student name, date, Name of the school, Class on the top right corner of the page 
3. One picture that represents you in some way 

Excel Instructions – See the excel attachment –  this is the excel template each student should use

1. Fill in 2 tabs – each tab should have a ‘one page’ view of your 5 year plan summary 
2. Summarize key points for each row in column B, C & D that represent time period 

PowerPoint Instructions

1. 5 -6 slides to summarize both of your goals, plan, etc. 
2. You can add 1-2 visuals in each slide 
3. Simple, easy to see and understand – key points  

TEacher’s Workshop August 2019

First of all, Huge Thanks to Vipin, Venkat Rao uncle & Nagaraju for taking care of all the logistics for the meeting! 
In addition to the monthly Skype calls started in 2018, this face to face session with all the teachers was very successful in personally connecting to all the new and current teachers. We first level set expectations, Shared guidelines, and explained how to establish targets for each class. Also provided clarifications requested and explained our goal to bring standardization/consistency among all the teachers. A common location/ webpage on awarnessusa will be provided to all the teachers to save the students work. 
One to one mentor was assigned for all new teachers joined – Mentors will be calling/ checking with their assigned teacher at least on a weekly basis to help them where needed. This will be tracked for a 3 month period and purpose is: mentor/ current teacher shares his/her experience and guide the new teachers to be most productive as quickly as possible. 
First two competitions were discussed in detail and shared the expectation that teachers must ensure all the students learn/practice to get to the level of the winners – leverage the website, winning projects and students to teach. 
Competition project #3 was explained in detail as this combines 3 tools -MS Word, excel & PowerPoint. Per teachers suggestion, decided to add junior level competition for 7 th grade also. 
Had great discussions throughout the workshop and got some input/ideas from the teachers on curriculum, projects, schedule, etc. 
Next Skype call with al the teachers: September 14, 6 pm India time. 
Teachers first point of contact for any clarification and technical issues – Nagaraju
Action items and target dates:

1. Leverage winners and their projects the & Make all students practice the excel features and practice the Word – all teachers by February 28, 2020
2. Set up a formal Skype business call – Nagaraju by September 12 
3. Post in the website & Send/email the guidelines, standard check lists – Nagaraju by August 30th
4. Post on the website & email Project #3 details- Jyothi by September 12th.