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The purpose of this course is to train teachers of color and retain them in the classroom. One of the 2022-2023 goals of the charter school network in Washington, D.C. that requested this learning experience was to recruit and retain a more diverse group of teachers. After conducting surveys, focus groups, and interviews, the network learned that one of the main reasons it was losing teachers of color was due to a lack of targeted professional development for this particular group of teachers. As a result, this course aimed to address the key areas of professional development that the network’s teachers of color needed to stay in the classroom more long-term.
Details
Type: Custom Full eLearning Course
Audience: Teachers of color in a charter school network in Washington, D.C.
Date: July 2022
Tools
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Illustrator
PowerPoint
Articulate Storyline
Skills
Storyboarding
Instructional Design
Graphic Design
eLearning Development
Initial Design
Initial Design
As part of backwards design, I first created the scenario activity storyboard in Word; I wanted to develop learning content from real life application activities that would be relevant to my learners and that focused on the skills they needed to develop. In the scenario activity storyboard, I wrote the script for all choice outcomes, feedback for each decision, and the dialogue for the "Ask Ms. Furr" function. Once I completed the scenario activity storyboard, I then created another outline in Word to map out the rest of the course.
Storyboarding
Storyboarding
After creating the scenario storyboard, I then began storyboarding the rest of the course. I wrote and edited the scripts for all of the explainer videos using what I learned from the data analyzed and interviews with school leaders who were my SMEs. In drafting the scripts, I ensured to develop learning content that would address the major learning gaps identified in the analyze part of the process.
Development
Development
Given the length and complexity of the course and its multiple scenario activities, I developed the course in Articulate Storyline. I sourced images and videos using the stock footage in the Adobe Stock library for the explainer videos, used Adobe Premiere Pro to create and edit all explainer videos, and used Adobe Illustrator and PowerPoint to create all graphics, avatars, and backgrounds used in the scenario activities and videos.
In hindsight, I would’ve put my explainer videos through Auphonic to equalize the explainer videos’ audio. Additionally, for a cleaner look, I would have gotten stock footage from free video platforms like Pexels that didn’t have a company sign like Adobe.
The Finished Project
The Finished Project
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