Training Overview

The Education Specialist Training can be found in the ES Handbook on your school’s website. It is designed to walk the new ES through each facet of the handbook in an organized manner allowing the ES to choose to work through portions most pertinent to their situation as the needs arise.

1) You should be receiving an e-mail from the training staff, your ES Advisor, and your Area Facilitator (just before school starts for summer trainers). If you do not, please contact Theresa (iemtraining@ieminc.org) by email or call 800-979-4436. The e-mail from the training staff will indicate your Advisor, AF and give you directions for setting up your mandatory school e-mail account and for downloading the school's WEBfiles where you will do your training exams and submit work. You will need to contact your AF immediately to arrange to have your I-9 form signed.

2) Start reading through the Training Section of the ES Handbook. The Introduction , Phase 1 , Phase 2, and Computer Overview with Advisor must be done before students can be assigned. Read through each item listed in the phase, (all items are links from the ES Handbook and can be found there for future reference), and then proceed to the phase quizzes. The quizzes are located in your WEBfiles under “Create” ES Test. If you have trouble creating the quiz of your choice, please call or email your ES advisor. (When taking the quizzes, please click on the question to fully view all answer options.) Be sure you complete the questions under all tabs, as some sections have more than 25 questions.

Quiz Procedure

A) ES takes quiz in ES Webfiles.
B) The quizzes are auto corrected once or twice a day. You may also see completed quizzes in ES Webfiles/ES Detail. Click on the ES Training Tracker button. Where you are in the process of completing a quiz is listed.

C) ES goes back into the ES Webfiles, Create Test, selects the phase to be corrected, then corrects those
questions that need correcting if any by just reclicking on a different answer.
E) Repeat steps until tests are 100% correct.

F) Please email or contact your ES Advisor, not a training clerk, for specific questions related to ES training content, or if you are having issues with taking a quiz.

3) If you would like to explore ES WEBfiles (learning how to do a report card, learning record, etc.) but do not yet have students assigned, you may use this to log in as ES1223, password estr2006. These are fictitious files that you can "play" with. It will not hurt anything to do this step!

4)It is the responsibility of each newly hired ES to call their Area Facilitator to coordinate a time to observe an ES visit with their "AF" as soon as it can be arranged, after school is in session. The ES Observation Visit form must be mailed/faxed to the training clerk at 530-295-3583 to show completion of this requirement.

5) Phases 3-15 can be completed in any order, but the ES must complete at least 6 phases in the first month starting on the date than an e-mail is received from their advisor about the training, and any remaining phases in the second month. (If an ES is unable to complete at least one phase per week, they are subject to a suspension from receiving additional transfers and prospective students, potentially leading to a drop in student count, and this will be reflected on their evaluation.) This is critical for the school, as we cannot have ESs answering questions in the field when they have not completed the school training. Prior to completing a section, please respond to a question "that you will check on an answer and get right back to them". Contact your ES Advisor if you have any unusual circumstances that would prevent you from following this timeline, or if you need to delay starting service as an ES.

Phases 3-8 are recommended for any new ES starting out, unless you have high school students and would like to start with Phase 12… the choice is yours).

As you complete the reading and any video viewing (if applicable) in these phases, take the corresponding Phase test before progressing to a different phase. If a phase indicates that you should view a video, the video cds are available on the school website's ES Protected page (contact your advisor for how to access the ES Protected page).

6) Here is a link to a list of vendors recommended by the advisors for you to call to obtain catalogs, or visit their websites to be familiar with typical school curriculum.

7) New ESs will receive a mid-year evaluation at the end of the first 4- 6 months of employment.

8) Any questions or concerns should be directed to your ES Advisor. The Advisor Team is waiting to help you! J