Tiger BITeS - What Are They?
Trinity ISD received a TIE 5 grant for Teaching and Learning in May 2001. As part of this grant, the Technology Task Force of Trinity ISD determined a set of minimum technology skills necessary for instructional staff to be able to effectively integrate technology into the classroom. As part of Project JumpStart - these sets were known as Modules and the staff was offered opportunities to demonstrate mastery of these skills during the 2001-2001 school year.

In February 2002, the TISD Board of Trustees approved the TISD Technology Plan for 2002-2005, which included the requirement that all instructional staff must be able to demonstrate mastery in these Basic Introductory Technology Skills. Mastery of a Module in Project JumpStart is considered mastery in the correponding Tiger BITeS training module.

The Tiger BITeS (Basic Introductory Technology Skills) program is the direct continuation of the training modules introduced by Project JumpStart during the TIE 5 Grant.

Tiger BITeS Training - How Does it Work?
A list of skills needed to successfully complete each Tiger BITeS Module is available on the Trinity ISD Web Site. In addition, practice scripts and training files are available under the Staff Apps folder in the Network Applications folder on your desktop when you are logged in to the district network.

Instructional staff members and administrators are encouraged to review these skills and determine the things they know and the things they need to practice and master in order to complete the corresponding module.

Training sessions of the Tiger BITeS modules will be provided by InfoSource (http://trinityisd.simplek12.com/) and Atomic Learning (http://www.atomiclearning.com/k12/home) .

Mastery sessions for each of the Tiger BITeS Modules will be available in the InfoSource program (http://trinityisd.simplek12.com/) . After you complete the necessary learning lessons then the assessment is available. Upon successful completion of the assessment, you may print out a certificate that has the title of the session and a list of the CPE's. The program tracks all hours for administrators to monitor for the appropriate staff development hours needed for the year.

All instructional staff and administrators are expected to successfully complete a mastery session for each of the modules listed for their InfoSource folder.