The Situation
Impact Teaching Fellowship is an education remediation learning organization that helps young learners quickly catch up through daily remedial classes. Each year, new fellows are onboarded to support remediation efforts across multiple schools. These fellows must be quickly trained to manage classes, engage learners, and conduct quick assessment checks to ensure learning is actually happening.
The Challenge
The Onboarding and Training Lead needed an engaging and effective training solution to prepare new fellows ahead of the new year. To standardize training across a distributed team of new fellows, the team sought a self-paced, interactive eLearning course.
The training needed to help fellows:
- Spot disengagement before it spreads.
- Choose the right active learning strategy in the moment.
- Scaffold instruction so students move toward independence.
- Adjust when lessons don’t go as planned
The Process
To bring this interactive, story-driven experience to life, I followed a structured instructional design approach:
- Discovery & Analysis I began by identifying the core performance gap: new fellows understood teaching concepts in theory but struggled to execute them in real classroom situations. This "knowing-doing gap" became the central focus of the training design.
- Mentor-Led Narrative Design I created Mrs. Kubai, a veteran teacher character who guides learners through the course. By sharing her own hard-won insights, she makes abstract teaching strategies concrete, relatable, and memorable.
- Scenario-Based Learning I designed branching scenarios that place fellows directly into realistic classroom situations: Teaching place value while managing mixed ability levels and teaching phonics while handling post-recess energy. Each scenario features multiple decision points with strong, neutral, and weak choices. Fellows see the immediate consequences of their decisions.
- Practical Skill Frameworks I embedded actionable frameworks throughout the course: The "Big Three"; I Do, We Do, You Do and Active Learning Strategies such asTurn-and-Talk.
- Interactive Learning Elements to maintain engagement and reinforce learning, I incorporated: tabbed interactions; 2 branching classroom scenarios with multiple decision paths and personalized feedback, and reflection pauses between scenarios.
The Results
The final course presented Teach Forward Initiative with a streamlined, scalable and engaging solution that helps new fellows master lesson planning, classroom management and quick assessment checks.
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