Train teachers on technology management, report interpretation, and minimal redirection before computer-based instruction¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

Before the intervention, the study's principal investigator trained teachers and assistant teachers on two separate days using "oral explanations, modeling, and guided teacher practice". Teachers were trained "to respond to technology issues (e.g., volume adjustments), to access and decipher reports, and to intervene and redirect" with a minimum amount of gesturing or gentle physical guidance, and received implementation checklists to monitor implementation integrity.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Training delivered prior to the intervention, with advance access to the episodes and comparison software for review

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• preschool teachers and assistant teachers implementing computer-based instruction

Target Learning Goals¶

• implementing supplemental computer-based literacy instruction with integrity

Related Strategies¶

• Use printed story Readers tied to mastered content to reinforce computer-delivered reading instruction
• Ignoring and Nonverbal Redirection
• Brief initial training with extensive follow-up coaching and on-site facilitation for whole-school program implementation

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. (2009). Headsprout® Early Reading (WWC Intervention Report). https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/211