Ten Tips—Consortium for Education

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These ten tips are based on the experiences of federal agencies that collaborated with teachers to create online learning units (1999-2000). These tips were distilled from teams' final reports. Use them along with the toolkit to assist you in the process of working with teachers to create learning resources.

  
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  1. Know your agency's priorities and limits.

  2. Assign an interested and dedicated project leader within the agency.

  3. Choose carefully the team of teachers with whom you will work.

  4. Include active and alternate members on your teacher team, and request a signed commitment from each.

  5. Collaborate with outside organizations to strengthen the project and instructional units.

  6. Work with the agency and teacher members of your team to determine the pedagogical method of the learning units and the level of interactivity that will be necessary for it to be available on a website.

  7. Communicate with teacher members frequently and regularly.

  8. Match your agency resources to national academic standards and require teachers to weave the attainment of the standards into the design of their units.

  9. Work with your teacher team to develop an acceptable timeline for the development, implementation, and evaluation of the learning unit.

  10. Market your learning unit to a wide audience during its development and when it has been completed.


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Last updated October 2, 2001 (pjk)