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This page is a draft of a work plan Spring Intern from Harvard Graduate School of Education: Terri Singleton:
This page is a draft of a work plan for Spring Intern from Harvard Graduate School of Education: Terri Singleton:


===Main Goals===
===Main Goals===


   * Create a bank of high quality materials professional development for teachers and parent and community out reach and training
   * Create a bank of high quality professional development materials for teachers, parents, community outreach and training
   * Materials to be used in one day of a four day training in Puru
   * Materials to be used in one day of a four day training in Peru
   * Create a modular structure that can be adapted for different goals and different lengths of workshop.
   * Create a modular structure that can be adapted for different goals and different lengths of workshop.


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   * Create stories about deployments that are based in teaching and learning, not number of laptops deployed.
   * Create stories about deployments that are based in teaching and learning, not number of laptops deployed.
   * Create a feedback mechanism between the deployments with experience using Sugar and the PD
   * Create a feedback mechanism between the deployments with experience using Sugar and the PD
   * Create materials that feature Sugar being used around the world to foster a feeling of being part of global community in workshop participants
   * Create materials that feature Sugar being used around the world to foster a feeling in workshop participants of being part of a global community  
   * Help expand our grassroots community to include more teachers  
   * Help expand our grassroots community to include more teachers  
   * To provide an entrance path into the Sugar community that is not Open Source Computer Geek and that this brings diversity of gender and viewpoints to our community.
   * Provide an entrance path into the Sugar community that is not Open Source Computer Geek, thus bringing a diversity of gender and viewpoints to our community.


===Intern Responsibilities===
===Intern Responsibilities===
   * Write a weekly status report and post it to IAEP
   * Write a weekly status report and post it to IAEP
   * Work towards running a local workshop for teachers and parents for $ to sustain this part of the project
   * Work towards running a local workshop for teachers and parents for $ to sustain this part of the project

Revision as of 20:47, 19 December 2008

This page is a draft of a work plan for Spring Intern from Harvard Graduate School of Education: Terri Singleton:

Main Goals

  * Create a bank of high quality professional development materials for teachers, parents, community outreach and training
  * Materials to be used in one day of a four day training in Peru
  * Create a modular structure that can be adapted for different goals and different lengths of workshop.

Implicit Goals

  * Improve our ability to explain how Sugar supports good pedagogy in classrooms
  * Create stories about deployments that are based in teaching and learning, not number of laptops deployed.
  * Create a feedback mechanism between the deployments with experience using Sugar and the PD
  * Create materials that feature Sugar being used around the world to foster a feeling in workshop participants of being part of a global community 
  * Help expand our grassroots community to include more teachers 
  * Provide an entrance path into the Sugar community that is not Open Source Computer Geek, thus bringing a diversity of gender and viewpoints to our community.

Intern Responsibilities

  * Write a weekly status report and post it to IAEP
  * Work towards running a local workshop for teachers and parents for $ to sustain this part of the project