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Instructional Product Evaluation

SBCSC Training: Choosing to be Exceptional
Heba Said
EDCI 577

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SBCSC overview:
SBCSC stands for South Bend Community School Corporation.
SBCSC believes that they cant achieve excellence in everything they do without the
commitment, dedication and discipline of all community stakeholder entities.
SBCSC mission is In partnership with students, families and community, SBCSC provides the
respect, encouragement and support every student needs to attain the knowledge and skills
necessary for post-secondary success
SBCSC vision is SBCSC will be the communitys choice for exceptional education with expert
staff and exemplary programs that engage our diverse students in quality learning and equip each
one, academically and personally, to thrive in and shape a changing world.
SBCSC provided training program to help employee to achieve their goals in becoming
excellence in education. They committed to Choosing to Be Exceptional as each child graduates
from high school is prepared for college and career. To achieve their goal, they will increase their
investment in effective teaching. They set their goals for excellence and created a strategic plan.
This guided plan will reflect on what SBCSC wants for students, staff, program, parent, and
community partners, support operations and culture.
First SBCSC did a two-day strategies planning facilitated by Sharon Cox of Synergetic
Leadership Group, Inc. in August. SBCSC Board of Trustees and Superintendent of schools
discussed the approach to planning and reviewed an analysis of prior community and staff input.
Audience & Context:
The audience are SBCSC staff. The staff include administrator, all grade level teachers, and
technology instructional designers. This training will be continue to provide teachers and staff to
be working for excellence in teaching for all schools. This training will be delivered in quarterly
basis until improvement in schools are seen or teachers developed well action plan for their
students. The improvement will be as higher scores for state tests and improvement in progress
reports. The training will focus on implementing the strategic plan. This training will offer in the
evening during the week and also may have weekend options. Each school will have their own
training. The Principal will collect the information about training time from teachers and decide

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which day is working for the majority of staff.

Measurement Instrument & Procedures:

The four levels of Evaluation from Kirkpatrick model will be use to evaluate the effectiveness of
the training program. Appendix A is a reaction sheet to evaluate the training program. Appendix
B is a questionnaire to measure participants knowledge and collect information if this training
will be needed for the same school again. Also, teachers should create Action Plan to show what
steps they will use to improve students learning and achieve their Goals. The questionnaire for
reaction will be given at the end of the training and collect in the same time. The questionnaire
for measuring participants learning will be send as an e-mail to teachers and it should be return
back in a week. Teachers will be given four week period frame to submit their action plan to the
corporations. Principal will conduct classroom observation to insure that action plan is working
for all teachers.

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Reporting:
After the training is finish, the instructor will collect the reaction sheet from all participants. The
information on that sheet will help in determine if the training effective to some actions are
needed. The reactions sheets will be submitted to the superintendent to review and approve
changes to the training. After the learning sheets return to the corporation, the superintendent will
check teachers learning from the training. If learning is not develop, then she will make final
decision on when this training should be in that school again. The principal will collect data on
students achievement and teachers Action Plan to determine where is that school at the
objectives of training and if they met their goals or they need more training for teachers. Then
the principal will submit final report to the corporation and the trustee board. SBCSC will
continue monitoring, assessment, and feedback for improvement and success.

References:
Kirkpatrick, D., Kirkpatrick, J. (2006) Evaluating training program: The Four Level. (3rd ed) San
Francisco, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

Schmidt, C. Choosing to be exceptional: Strategic plan 2013-2016. Retrieved September 16, 2014,
https://www.boarddoc.com/in/sbcsc/board.nsf/files/9DCQ2V673F10/$file/strategic%20plan_102113.pdf

http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/southbendtribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/45/545e
11e3-a93d-0019bb30f31a/525c567bdb1c6.pdf.pdf

Appendices:

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Appendix A: SBCSC Training Survey

Optional Questions:
Those questions are optional for tracking purpose if you wish to answer them, you information
will be confidence.
Name:
School:

Grade you teach:

Require Questions:
For each question, select the number that best corresponds to the 5-point scale below.
Please answer the following questions. This survey will help us improve our training to reach our
higher expectation. As our goal is choosing to Be Exceptional, your feed is very important.
1 = Strongly disagree | 2 = Disagree | 3 = Neither agree/disagree | 4 = Agree | 5 = Strongly Agree
1. The material covered in this training was relevant to my job?
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2. The Materials was presented in an interesting way.

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3. The Handout was helpful for that training.

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4. I will be able to use those materials in the classroom.

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5. The instructor was clear in stating training objective.

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6. The instructor was keeping the session interesting and active.

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7. The instructor helped me to connect training with every day classroom activities.
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8. The training facility was suitable.
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9. Training time was suitable for you.

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10. I will recommend this instructor for my friends and colleague.

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11. What will make this training more effective?

Comments:

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Appendix B: How to Be Exceptional

Name:

School:

Please answer the following questions:

State your goals for classroom improvement?

What are the characters of a high performance school?

What do we want for all students?

How we can achieve our goals for all students?

How to support and develop high quality, high performing staff?