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=Section 1 - Need Analysis Report=

Executive Summary
Conewago Township Elementary is an elementary K-3 building located in the Conewago Valley School District. It is an organization that affects many different people in various ways. There are children aged four through nine receiving a high quality education through the school. Also many people rely on their career through CVSD. There are bus drivers, custodians, aides, coaches, teachers, and administration that help keep the district running smoothly and efficiently. The need for our school is to train teachers and administrators in teaching technology standards to students set by the government. Teachers need to be aware of the technology standards and understand the importance of their students learning these standards. There are many causes of this need. They include teachers not being exposured to new technology, teachers being unwilling to learn new skills, having insufficient funds for training materials, and having inadequate equipment for technology.

The mission of the Conewago Valley School District, in partnership with family and community, is to develop productive and responsible citizens by educating students to their fullest potential.

Business Need
The purpose of this project is for teachers to clearly understand the standards set by the state in order for them to properly teach their students technology. (DO YOU WANT TO JUST EXPOSE THE TEACHERS OR HAVE THEM REACH OF LEVEL OF EXPERTISE?) It is imperative for students to be exposed to technology and how to use it correctly and efficiently. The current performance levels for our building are as follows:

- Only a few teachers have an understanding for safe use of technology. - Only a few teachers have an understanding of technology language. - Teachers have access to a mobile lab for 1 hour/6 day cycle. - Only 3 teachers has access to an interactive board. - Only 2nd and 3rd grade teachers in a K-3 building have projectors. - There is one digital camera for the building to share

Learning Opportunity
Training will be during the contracted school day. These trainings will be held during a series of in-service days. Many in-service days could be divided into sections, such as the morning focused on reading or math, and the afternoon focused on technology. The training will be done in-house so that outside trainers do not need to be paid. Some topics that will be discussed during training will be: educational programs to be used by both teachers and students, proper technology language etiquette, safe technology usage, and the different uses of technology in the classroom. It is my goal that teachers will be able to take ideas and resources back to their classrooms for use immediately. HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU ANTICIPATE THIS SERIES OF TRAINING TO BE TOTAL?

Expected Benefits
It is desired that the staff within the school uses technology with their students to address the technology standards at least 10% of the time (3 hours/week). Benefits to the organization: GOOD
 * Students will be able to use their knowledge of technology to express content knowledge by using presentation programs.
 * Students will improve their communication skills by presenting information found through technology to their peers.
 * Students and staff will be able to collaborate with ideas and programs with others in different school districts and states.

Audience Analysis
Based on observations and having knowledge of our staff, about 5 teachers at Conewago Township Elementary out of 22 teach the use technology and the standards (WHICH STANDARDS?) in their classroom at least 10% of the time. I will be conducting a survey that will collect more data on exactly how much time is spent teaching technology and what programs are being used when teaching technology.

Project Design
I am proposing that we have an instructor-led class/synchronous with lap-tops. Teachers will have the opportunity to explore new programs and get to know how to use the technology they will be using to teach their students. There will be a need for a technology committee to develop the necessary content to present to the teaching staff at Conewago Township Elementary. This content includes: acceptable websites for instruction, presentation software, keyboarding activities, digital camera usage, and proper internet usage instruction.

Project Success Measures
I will send out a survey in the beginning of the training and at the end. I know the training has been successful when at least 50% of the staff is teaching the technology standards to their students at least 3 hours/cycle week. ​ISN'T THIS AN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE? HOW WOULD THE ORGANIZATION BE ABLE TO MEASURE THE SUCCESS?

Out of Scope
These items will not be covered:
 * Using email
 * Actual use of a digital camera
 * Using the overhead data projector

Estimated Project Costs
Overall, the costs are mostly in the actual technology. We would need another mobile lab with enough laptops to accomodate an entire class, one or two more digital cameras, and memberships to the most popular teacher-related resource websites. We would also need the entire staff to be able to have a data projector in their room (9 more teachers) and at least 1 interactive whiteboard and interactive slate per grade level. THE COST SHOULD BE FOR THE TRAINING, NOT THE TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE.

The actual training wouldn't cost much considering it would be done in-house and no substitute teachers would be necessary. We would need to take into account paper for photocopying.

It would take approximately 4 inservice days to complete the training. These trainings would include: presentation software, internet usage and language etiquette, wordprocessing and using the network, and internet websites for instructional use. GOOD

Estimated Costs (based off of web research--bestbuy.com, officedepot.com, and promethean websites)

Enchanted Learning || 1 || $125.00 || $125.00 || worldbook online || 1 || $600.00 || $600.00 || abc teach || 10 || $40.00 || $400.00 ||
 * Item || Quantity || Amount || Cost ||
 * Laptops || 30 || $500.00 || $15,000.00 ||
 * Cart || 1 || $1,500.00 || $1,500.00 ||
 * Printer || 1 || $300.00 || $300.00 ||
 * Toner || 1 || $80.00 || $80.00 ||
 * Headphones || 30 || $15.00 || $450.00 ||
 * Power Surge || 1 || $50.00 || $50.00 ||
 * Paper for Photcopies || 1 || $30.00 || $30.00 ||
 * Digital Cameras || 2 || $200.00 || $400.00 ||
 * Memberships to
 * Memberships to
 * Memberships to
 * Promethean boards || 3 || $1,200.00 || $3,600.00 ||
 * Data Projectors || 9 || $800.00 || $7,200.00 ||
 * Promethean Activslates || 3 || $300.00 || $900.00 ||
 * ||  || Total || $29,735.00 ||
 * ||  || Total || $29,735.00 ||

=Section 2 - Performance Analysis=