1. Look through the catalogue, noting Innovators of interest to you and your curriculum.
2. Pick out one or two Innovators that you would like to have visit.
3. If possible, please request Innovators who work close to you, in an effort to minimize travel costs and travel time.
4. Please inform other teachers (in your school and possibly in other schools in your area) that you are requesting an Innovator. To maximize student involvement and to make the fullest use of the Innovator's efforts and time, we are promoting the possibility of multiple presentations to classes in the area on the day of the visit.
5. Please book the Innovator an optimum 4-6 weeks in advance to ensure a mutually agreeable time and date. Our Innovators have to arrange time off work and arrange travel plans, so they appreciate lots of advance notice.
6. Please fully complete the Innovator Request Form which will be sent to you. Then mail or fax it to Innovators-STEPS office.
7. After the visit has been arranged, we will give the Innovator your work and home phone numbers so that, together, you can more precisely prepare your class and classroom for the visit.
8. Also, you will be sent a School Response Form.
After the visit has taken place, we ask both the Innovator and the teacher to complete evaluation forms indicating their impressions of the visit. In these evaluations, we are looking for opinions on the Innovators-STEPS program itself; we are NOT evaluating individual visitors or the schools visited. The evaluations, while generally very positive and supportive, have allowed us to improve the Innovators-STEPS program significantly.