Intel® Teach Program

Essentials Course

Promethean Board Training

Guide for new teachers

Unit Author
First and Last Name Debbie Avery
School District Pamlico County Schools
School Name Fred A. Anderson Elementary School
School City, State Bayboro, NC
Unit Overview
Unit Title
Promethean Board Training
Unit Summary
Teachers will attend several staff development trainings on how to use a Promethean Board. After the
training and several class facilitations and modeling sessions, teachers will select a lesson plan based upon
their interest. Using the promethean board and software, teachers will develop a flipchart to engage
students in the skills and objectives of the lesson plan. Then, the teacher will use the flipchart during a
class period. Finally, teachers will evaluate and share a formative assessment using Activexpressions with
the class. End product will be a flipchart to be used in class, with at least three different tools, that has an
Activexpression component.

Subject Area
Use of integrating technology in daily lesson plans
Grade Level
New teachers or teachers selected by administration for remediation
Approximate Time Needed
4 training sessions during planning periods during a 3 week period. Then, 3 facilitation/modeling
sessions during a 4 week period. Then, created flipchart within 2 weeks from 3rd facilitating session.
Unit Foundation
Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
TF Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Educational technology facilitators apply and implement curriculum plans that include methods
and strategies or utilizing technology to maximize student learning. Educational technology
facilitators:
A Facilitate technology-enhanced experiences that address content standards and student
technology standards. Candidates:
1. Use methods and strategies for teaching concepts and skills that support integration of
technology productivity tools (refer to NETS for Students).
2. Use and apply major research findings and trends related to the use of technology in
education to support integration throughout the curriculum.
Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes

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Teachers will create persuasive presentations appropriate for a selected audience.

Teachers will gather, analyze, organize, reflect, and process information about Promethean Boards in
a variety of ways.

Curriculum-Framing Questions
Essential
Why teach?
Question
Why are Promethean Boards important?
Unit
How will I use this board with a class?
Questions
Why do we need formative assessments?
What are Promethean Boards?
Content
What are some of the bells and whistles with this board?
Questions
How are activexpression used to create formative assessments?
Assessment Plan
Assessment Timeline

Before project work begins Students work on projects After project work is
and complete tasks completed

• Project checklists—KWL
• Brainstorm ideas of needs • Product—Design, Construction,
• Project meetings—group and
• Brainstorm ideas of how the Multimedia, Presentation, Skill
individual
classroom will look Demonstration
• Think-Pair-Share—with each • Performance evaluation by
other in the group administration
• Examine student work—practice
skills covered in the workshop
• Teacher Led Conference with ITF
• On-line quizzes

Assessment Summary

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Assessment Process and Purpose of Assessment

Brainstorming Teachers will brainstorm what challenges they are facing in their
ideas of needs classrooms
Brainstorm on Teachers will discuss how the Activstudio software will change their
how class will teaching styles. Ways that students will be able to engage in active
look learning opportunities and with electronic polling
Think-Pair-Share Teachers will discuss in small groups what they want to learn from
the trainings
Examine student Teachers will critique pre-made flipcharts to gain an understanding
work of how flipcharts will transform their teaching style
Project checklist Teachers will rank their current knowledge at the beginning of the
—KWL training session to gauge needs and then re-evaluate at the end of the
modules to measure increase in knowledge—self reflection
assessment.
Project Meetings Periodic meetings will be held individually and as a group to discuss
skills learned and to discover weaknesses and correct them. Also,
discussion will be held to discover what other tools and skills are
desired by the group to still learn. Form of formative assessment to
gauge needs and set goals.
Product Final product will be evaluated for mastery of skills and to revisit
any apparent weaknesses or misunderstandings of the software.
Performance As part of district initiative, administration will conduct an
Evaluation observation to gauge the use of technology during instructional
delivery. A follow up conference will be held between
administration and the teacher.
Teacher led A follow up conference with ITF and teacher will be held to plan for
conference future staff development needs of the teacher as a sign of continuous,
on-going, teacher driven trainings.
On-line quizzes A summative evaluation tool to measure how much teachers have
learned from the training sessions.
Unit Details
Prerequisite Skills
Understanding of their content area. No specific computer skills are required.
Instructional Procedures

Essential
Why teach?
Question
Why are Promethean Boards important?
Unit
How will I use this board with a class?
Questions
Why do we need formative assessments?
What are Promethean Boards?
Content
What are some of the bells and whistles with this board?
Questions
What are formative assessments?

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Assessing Background Knowledge and Establishing a Foundation

Module 1 for Days 1 & 2

Discuss the need for Promethean Board training with the following essential question

Pose the Essential Question, “Why teach?” Hold a discussion focused on this question and how it relates
to their training. Record responses to essential question and comments on how the Promethean Board will
aid them in teaching on a flipchart.

Present the agenda and PB training manual and discuss administration and district expectations.

Begin introducing fundamentals of Activstudio as decided during group discussions. Show how to
accomplish a task on the board and then have teachers repeat it using their own laptop. This part addresses
the content question of “What is a Promethean Board?” By the end of the lesson teachers should be able
to answer the unit question of “Why are Promethean Boards important?”

Specific Tasks
Start program Adding colors
Add pages Pen Modifier
Main toolbox Fill Tool
Toolstrip Marquee Select
Object edit Edit text and objects
Page edit Duplicate Objects
Pen Tool Highlighter Tool
Customize Toolbox Eraser Tool
Deleting Items Undo/Redo
Clear Tool Text Tool
Keyboard Repositioning Text
Resource Library Saving Flipchart

End training session with a tie in to essential question of “Why Teach?” into how these could help them
with their previous answers. A KWL/Venn Diagram will be filled out during the initial training and then
revisited at the end session.

Module 2 for Days 3 & 4

Ask essential question again of “Why Teach?” Ask each group member to come to board to repeat a
variety of skills learned. Lead a discussion to summarize students’ findings, and make clarifications and
additions as needed. Have students think about and discuss briefly their thoughts on the Unit Question,
Why are Promethean Boards important? Relate unit question to goals of Module 2. Repeat process from
Module 1 of showing tools and giving them time to use them on their laptop. Tools covered are decided
by the teachers. This part addresses the content question of “What are some of the bells and whistles with
this board?”

Open a saved flipchart Recognition Tool

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Explore Resource Library Page Selector

Search for Resources Page Organizer
Manipulate Objects Focus Tools
Open Pre-made Flipcharts Flipchart Summary
Backgrounds Flipchart Notes
Grids Embed Items
Sound Activexpressions

Module 3—Days 6-8

In answer to the unit question of Instructional Technology Facilitator will visit the classroom three times in
a four week period.
Day 6—During this time, the ITF will model the use of the board during one lesson based upon the
teacher’s lesson plans and specific requests and needs of the teacher. In a post conference, “How will I
use this board in the classroom?” should be satisfactorily answered. In addition, the unit question of “Why
do we need formative assessments?” will be discussed.
Day 7—ITF will train the teacher and class on how to use activexpressions based upon specific needs and
requests of the teacher. This will address the content question of, “How are activexpression used to create
formative assessments?” Next, the ITF will help the teacher during a lesson creating a formative
assessment with activexpressions.
Day 8—Finally, the classroom teacher will download and transform a flipchart to use in her class with the
help of the ITF. The ITF (their role will only be for support as needed) will be in the classroom when the
teacher uses her flipchart and activexpressions. This flipchart will be one downloaded from Promethean
Planet and adapted to meet the needs of her lesson.

Module 4
Day 9-10
Teacher will attend a training session to create a flipchart made from scratch. Before leaving the teacher
will feel comfortable with the flipchart and be prepared to use it in front of a class.

ITF will attend class session in which teacher uses her flipchart made from scratch. There will be a
formative assessment piece in the flipchart.

Post conference teacher-led conference as a wrap up

Revisit KWL/Venn Diagram started during first session at end of last session.

Module 5
On their own, the teachers will complete Activstudio Training on line with 5 quizzes to evaluate their
knowledge of the program. A hundred percent on all quizzes are required to receive credit for the training.

Finally step will be evaluation by administrators during an official class observation.

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Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction

Special Needs Provide guidance for using various tools
Students Hold training sessions
Facilitate use in classrooms
Nonnative Provide guidance for using Promethean Planet and Spanish available flipcharts
Speakers Offer additional facilitation and modeling sessions

Gifted/Talented Encourage more complicated tools and higher level interactive tools
Students

Materials and Resources Required For Unit

Technology – Hardware (Click boxes of all equipment needed)
Camera Laser Disk VCR
✘ Computer(s) ✘ Printer Video Camera
Digital Camera ✘ Projection System Video Conferencing Equip.
DVD Player Scanner Other
✘ Internet Connection Television
Technology – Software (Click boxes of all software needed.)
Database/Spreadsheet Image Processing Web Page Development
Desktop Publishing ✘ Internet Web Browser Word Processing
E-mail Software Multimedia ✘Other Activestudio and
Encyclopedia on CD-ROM Activexpression

Printed Materials SCOS, Training Manual

Candy
Supplies
Memory Stick
www.prometheanplanet.com
www.learnnc.com
Internet Resources
www.unitedstreaming.com
www.prometheanlearning.com

Other Resources Buddy Teacher

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