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LiFT Teacher Training Guide

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Customizable, learner-driven technology to teach and assess mastery of skills through interdisciplinary projects

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Welcome! Let’s get you started in LiFT.

Once you log in, follow the video tutorials in each module to familiarize yourself with LiFT.

Like you, we believe in active learning. For that reason, we’ve given you suggested activities after each tutorial.

Go ahead, get in there and start creating!

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Orientation

Understand the basic tenets of LiFT and its power to help create a vibrant learner-centered environment in your School. Learn what’s where and how to maneuver around LiFT.

Project Building I

Through real-world learning, you can tap learner voice and choice. LiFT gives you the tools to guide your student’s learning, scaffolding them through project goals.

Project Building II

LiFT combines Project Based Learning with Competency Based Education. See how to capture your learners’ growth in Artifacts of Learning.

Portfolio Assessment

Competency-based assessment of evidence-rich Skill Portfolios demonstrates learning that transcends class, subject and time. And LiFT takes the guesswork out of grading.

Learner Engagement

Robust two-way communication between you and your students is key to their engagement and learning. LiFT helps make feedback around competencies easy.

What to Expect?

Five self-paced training modules containing short tutorial videos to guide you through the LiFT experience, with suggested activities to learn through experience.

Each video is short as we know your time is precious. The training is self-paced, so you are in control.

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Orientation

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Orientation

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The Learning and Teaching Process with LiFT

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Orientation

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What’s Where

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Orientation

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What you’ve learned in Module 1:

  • You understand the basic tenets behind LiFT.
  • You are able to log onto the platform.
  • You know how to navigate around your Dashboard.

When you’re ready, let’s go explore Project Building.

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Project Building I

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Project Building I

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Create a Project with Steps

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Project Building I

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Project Building I

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Evidence Assignments

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Project Building I

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Using Google Templates

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Project Building I

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What you’ve learned in Module 2:

  • How to create a Project with Steps and share Resources for students.
  • How to add Evidence assignments, including using Google Templates.

Additional Resource Article:

  • Using Google Templates

Activity:

  • Create a new Project, add two Steps, add an Evidence assignment to the second Step.

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Project Building II

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Project Building II

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Tagging Skills

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Project Building II

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Tagging Skills

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Project Building II

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Enabling Evidence Evaluation

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Project Building II

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Assigning Learners

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Project Building II

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Team Projects

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Project Building II

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What you’ve learned in Module 3:

  • How to tag Skills to Evidence and enable evaluation against those Skills.
  • How to assign Projects to Learners

Additional Resource Articles:

  • Tag Evidence to Skills | Assign Learners

Activity:

  • Tag the Evidence assignment you made in Module 2 to two skills from your School’s framework and enable rubric rating. Assign your Project to your school’s Sample Student account.

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Learner Engagement

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Learner Engagement

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The Learner Experience

Your Learners’ interface is very similar to yours.

Here’s the Google Slide Deck we’ve created to get them launched into the platform:

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Learner Engagement

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Feedback Cycle

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Learner Engagement

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Co-Creating Projects

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Learner Engagement

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Customizing Projects

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Learner Engagement

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Evidence Evaluation and Adding Evidence to Portfolios

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Learner Engagement

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What you’ve learned in Module 4:

  • How to use the Feedback and Revision Cycle to keep your learners engaged.
  • How to evaluate evidence and send it to a tagged Skill Portfolio.

Additional Resource Article:

  • Feedback & Evaluation

Activity:

  • Find Sample Student’s Evidence assignment you created and send a comment to them about one of the tagged Skills.

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  • Portfolio Grading
  • Class Grading
  • Combined Portfolios

Portfolio Assessment

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These features are still in development and will be available in August 2022. Thank you for your patience.

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Portfolio Assessment

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What you’ve learned in Module 5:

  • LiFT can help you by suggesting Portfolio Grades and a Class Grade that averages evaluated Evidence pushed into tagged Skill Portfolios.

Additional Resource Articles:

  • Skill Portfolios | Outcomes - Class Grades and Reporting

Activity:

  • Mark Sample Student’s Evidence assignment as Completed, evaluate it with a rubric, and add it to the tagged Skill Portfolio(s).
  • Find out whether your school has a grading policy in place by seeing whether tagged Skill Portfolio displays your evaluation. Click on cell.

Coming Soon!

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Project Building II

Portfolio Assessment

Learner Engagement

Orientation

Project Building I

Bravo!

You’ve completed the LiFT Teacher Training modules. Now it’s time to start building your curriculum in LiFT.

Your LiFT Team looks forward to answering any questions

you have at an upcoming Q&A Session.

If you run into any roadblocks, feel free to reach out

to us at support@liftlearning.com.