Training

Enhance your most valuable resource – your people.

DETEL offers a full spectrum of on-site training and professional development courses. Our certified training professionals are able to customize training courses specifically to meet your organizational needs. Our certified educators can design courses to match state-defined curriculum and show teachers how easy it is to integrate new technology in their classrooms. With DETEL certification and training, you and your staff will be fully prepared to meet the complexities and challenges of operating and integrating all of the technology we provide. We offer full-day, half-day and weekend training sessions for your convenience. These in-depth sessions are held at your location and are designed to help you master your DETEL products through hands-on practice and discussions about integrating them into your workplace. Sessions range from basic operation and best practices to advanced discussions on how to incorporate product features into your day-to-day operations.

Continuing Learning Units (CLUs)

In recent years federal, state and local education initiatives require that teachers be highly qualified in order to maintain their positions at any public elementary, middle, or secondary school. In Louisiana in particular, teachers who are new to the profession must complete 90 Continuing Learning Units (CLU’s) within five (5) years. A Continuing Learning Unit (CLU) is a professional development activity that builds capacity for effective, research-based, content focused teaching and learning that positively impacts student achievement. The Louisiana Professional Development Guidance will be used to define the 150 continuing learning units. All content-specific workshops conducted by DETEL certified trainers meet the requirements as put forth within the state guidelines.

DETEL's Subject-Specific SMART® Board Courses

In subject-specific courses learn how to effectively integrate the SMART® Board into classroom instruction while exploring new, innovative, and engaging lesson ideas. Within various subjects, participants will quickly acquire new SMART® Board skills and methods that will interactively engage students – focusing attention on the lesson, not the technology. Educators will also explore SMART® Notebook lesson activities and resources. Choose from Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.

DETEL Course Offerings SBN 101–103 are sequenced professional development programs consisting of three 4-hour sessions featuring hands-on SMART® technology workshops. Each course within the sequence focuses on specific functions of the SMART® Board and SMART® Notebook software, which can be used within Louisiana’s Comprehensive Curriculum for Continuing Learning Credits. Teachers will explore resources provided by DETEL Certified Trainers and SMART® Technologies that provide maximum benefits from your SMART® products.

SBN 101: SMART® Board Basics & Intro to Notebook Software
(Hands-on, 4-hours)
Learn the basic operations of the SMART® Board for immediate classroom implementation. Teachers will have the opportunity to physically setup all necessary equipment, navigate the web, and employ applications, such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, along with implementing SMART® tools in real life scenarios. After this professional development course, teachers will have resources, confidence and foundation skills needed to start using SMART® Boards on a daily basis.

SBN 102: Intermediate SMART® Board & Notebook Software Training
(Hands-on, 4-hours)
Comprehensive, hands-on training that explores in more depth the capabilities of SMART® Notebook software. This course reveals how to integrate SMART® technology part of daily curriculum to make learning fun and interactive. Learn to create engaging activities with a variety of interactive tools and gallery content. Participants will also learn how to incorporate interactive features such as tables, animation, recordings, hyperlinks and more. Upon completion of this professional development course, teachers will be able to locate and create interactive SMART® Notebook activities that increase student engagement and participation in a manner that addresses the diverse learning styles of students.

SBN 103: Advanced Interactive SMART® Board & Notebook Software Training
(Hands-on, 4 hours)
Learn to fully integrate resources from SMART® Notebook software into your teaching repertoire. Learn sophisticated techniques that will help teachers realize the full potential of the Notebook software and further increase students’ engagement. Explore advanced software tools like the SMART® Recorder and Video Player – customize all settings within the software to fit personal teaching styles. Teachers will also explore compatible file formats in order to enhance SMART® Notebook activities. After completing this professional development experience, teachers will understand all aspects of the SMART® Board software, locate available on-line resources, and realize the full potential of SMART® products classroom solution use in the classroom.

SMART® Table Training:
(3 hours)
Educators learn how to effectively integrate the SMART® Table into classroom instruction and how to customize activities using the Table Toolkit. Educators will also explore available SMART® Table activities and resources.

SMART® Document Camera:
(2 hours)
Participants will learn the functions and features of the SMART® Document Camera. Participants will also learn how to effectively integrate the SMART® Document Camera into classroom instruction. SMART® Sync (3 hours) Participants will explore how SMART® Sync software will integrate into routine classroom teaching and management in a computer lab setting.

SMART® Response
(2.5 hours)
Participants will learn the functions and features of SMART® Response. Participants will also create question sets using the Wizard and Importing questions from MS Word, provide feedback on user performance, and explore SMART® Response resources. SMART® AirLiner /

SMART® Slate
(2 hours)
Participants will explore your slate works, how to use applications with the slate, how to write on the slate and capture what was written, and how to use the slate with a SMART® Board interactive whiteboard. Interactive Video Conferencing Participants will learn how to infuse a live two-way communication technology into the curriculum. Participants will explore how to use video conferencing to collaborate with experts, go on virtual field trips, experience global cultural exchanges, and participate in professional development opportunities.

i-SAFE America
(6 hours)
Learn about this free K-12 curriculum provided by i-SAFE America. It is provided to all 50 states and is a dynamic interactive program designed to educate and empower the student to use the web safely and appropriately. Lessons include Cyber Citizenship, Personal Safety, Cyber Security, Intellectual Property, Cyber Bullying, and Predator Identification. The high school curriculum is a video webcast hosted by teens.

Technology Tools to Help Teach Math Skills
(3 hours)
Teachers will learn how to create a web quest to teach basic math skills. This workshop helps teachers to incorporate comprehensive curriculum activities into web quests activities. Audacity Explore this free audio editing software and discover ways to use it in your classroom projects.

LPB Cyber-Channel, Formerly “United Streaming”
(3 hours)
Participants will learn how to incorporate a digital video-based learning resource that is scientifically proven to increase academic achievement into the curriculum. LPB Cyber-Channel features more than 5,000 full-length videos segmented into 50,000 content-specific video segments.

Other Course Offerings:

Savvy Search Strategies / (2.0 hours)
K-12 Online Resources / (2.5 hours)
Computer Basics / (2.5 hours)
MS Window/File Management / (2.5 hours)
Outlook E-Mail / (2.0 hours)
Visual Literacy in the Classroom / (2.0 hours)
Electronic Portfolios / (6.0 hours)
Timeline 5.0 / (2.0 hours)
Inspiration / 6-12 / (2.0 hours)
Kidspiration / K-5 / (2.0 hours)
Graph Club / (2.0 hours)
Kid Pix Studio / (2.0 hours)
Tom Snyder All Star Review / (2.0 hours)
Scholastic Keys / K-5 / (2.5 hours)

To learn more about DETEL Training and Professional Development, click here or call 1-866-DETEL-11 today to schedule an appointment for one of our certified trainers to come out and deliver any of our customizable training courses!