Opportunities: Since all of the instructors were working full-time with students and the program was given a limited budget, face-to-face coaching and group workshop activities were prohibitive. There was an urgent need to develop skills in 1:1 instruction, which required technology with informal interaction from mentors. To accomplish this, I…
- Conducted a survey to identify the level of skills and amount of time available to dedicate to training
- Designed a course in the Competency-Based Education (CBE) model to teach instructors how to curate resources and create a Professional Learning Network (PLN) to account for the variance in teacher development
- used Articulate, Powerpoint, Word, PaintPro, Camtasia, Audacity, and integrated 3rd Party Software,
- Recruited and trained mentors that would be able to help others build their PLN
- Monitored the progress along prescribed performance benchmarks
- Received ongoing feedback from mentor-trainers and made adjustments to the course procedures
- Augmented the CBE course with face-to-face workshops as budget allowed
- In addition, I was selected for a 2019 Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) national working group to validate alternative credentialing for the business-to-business group.