Welcome to

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• Welcome to
• Guideways and Milestones Whats the Difference?
• Presenter Jennifer Streamer
• XAP National Trainer

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Objectives

• Attendees will understand
• The differences between Guideways and Milestones
• Best practices for using Guideways and Milestones
• When to use a Guideway vs. a Milestone
• How the Professional Center supports the use of
  Guideways and Milestones
• How to train around Guideways and Milestones

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Introduction

• What do you know about these tools?
• Form groups of 3-4
• Rate your groups knowledge of Guideways and
  Milestones
• Share any burning questions or challenges around
  Guideways and Milestones that have emerged during
  your trainings.

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Guideways Milestones
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Guideways Milestones
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Training Solutions

• Benefits to Trainers The Guideways and
  Milestones provide a structured method of
  teaching the program.
• Benefits to Trainees The Guideways and
  Milestones create a sequence of activities for
  students (ease of use), they encourage students
  to return to the system, and they create a
  checkpoint system for professionals.
• Benefits to sites Understanding when, how, and
  why Guideways or Milestones should be used will
  drive use of the program.

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Understanding Guideways

• The Guideways defined
• Guideway FAQs
• Using the Guideways in the Student and
  Professional Center

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Guideways

• Guideways
• Are customized for each grade level.
• Help answer the question, What should I do
  next?
• Lead students step-by-step through the program.
• Provide instruction and guidance to students.
• Can be started, stopped and restarted at any
  time.
• Can be easily tracked and monitored by a
  professional

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Guideways FAQs

• Where can you access the Guideways in the Student
  Center?
• How can students move through them efficiently?
• When can students complete the Guideways?
• What if students have completed Guideway
  activities outside the Guideway?
• What Guideway Customizations are available?
• Other?

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Guideways the Pro Center

• The Reports tab
• in the Professional Center will give you access
  to the Guideway Tracker

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Reports Tab

• The Guideway Tracker will allow you to evaluate
  student progress through the Guideways

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Guideways Tracking

• The Guideway Tracking Report allows you to track
  student progress on completing the Guideways.
  Lets go into a live site to see how this works.

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Questions?
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Implementing Guideways

• Discuss the following
• How have you seen Guideways used within the
  school?
• What are your suggestions for using Guideways
  within the school?
• Which of these strategies would be most effective
  to share during a training session?

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Your Planning Milestones

• Your Planning Milestones defined
• Milestones FAQs
• Using the Milestones in the Student and
  Professional Center

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Your Planning Milestones

• Milestones
• Are benchmarks or activities that the student is
  expected to complete within a time frame.
• Can be customized by choosing from many features
  in the program including assessments, career
  plans, and more.
• Milestones are accessed from the Portfolio tab.

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Milestones FAQs

• How are Milestones different than Guideways?
• How do students use the Milestones?
• How is student progress displayed?
• How are Milestones beneficial to educators?
• How can Milestones be customized?
• Other?

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Your Planning Milestones

• Students see a list of milestones that link
  to the appropriate activity within the program.

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Your Planning Milestones

• When a student completes a milestone, a checkmark
  and date of completion is recorded next to the
  milestone.

• Lets go into the live site to view Your Planning
  Milestones

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Your Planning Milestones

• Professional users with administrative rights can
  customize the milestones for their school through
  the systems Professional Center.

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Your Planning Milestones Customization

1. Click on the Administration Tab and then choose
   Change the Planning Milestones for your students.
2. Click Add a new set of planning milestones
3. Enter a Planning milestone set name
4. Choose up to 18 Milestones for this set
5. Click Save
6. Assign the set of milestones to a grade level
7. Click Save

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Your Planning Milestones Customization

• Before creating sets of Milestones, consider
• What do I want my students to accomplish?
• Choose milestones that support these goals.
• How should I organize my sets of milestones?
• You can choose to divide your milestones into
  sets by school year, semester, month, or into a
  unit of your own devising. Change the milestones
  as needed throughout the school year to support
  your timeline.
• How will you organize your sets of
  planning milestones?

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Your Planning Milestones

• Lets go into the live site and walk through this
  process.

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Your Planning Milestones Tracking

• The Milestone Tracking Report allows you to track
  student progress on completing the Milestones.
  Lets go into live site to see how this works.

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Questions?
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Implementing Milestones

• Discuss the following
• How have you seen Milestones used within the
  school?
• What are your suggestions for using Milestones
  within the school?
• Which of these strategies would be most effective
  to share during a training session?

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Group Work/Collaboration

• Developing an Implementation Plan for training
• Form groups of 3-4
• Work together to create a plan for training on
  Guideways and Milestones
• Complete the following questions as your guide.

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Group Work/Collaboration

• Who are the potential training audiences that
  could benefit from this knowledge/skill?
•  What additional information about my audiences
  do I need to make the training as relevant as
  possible?
•  What are the associated general learning
  outcomes for each of these audiences?
•  What are the pre/post-requisites for this
  knowledge to be learned effectively? And, how can
  I assist my learners in completing those
  requisites?
•  How can this best be delivered? (hands-on
  activity, group discussion, etc.)
•  Where can I best fit this in within the context
  of the training session as a whole?
•  What materials, if any, would assist me in
  training on this topic?
•  How can I maximize the chances that my learners
  will actually use this knowledge after the
  training?
•  Is there anything else I need to consider?

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Questions?
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Conclusion

• Thank you for participating
• in todays session!