The FingerWings program includes these complementary components:

• A manual guides the elementary classroom teacher in establishing routines for training and monitoring students as they develop effective and healthful touch-keyboarding technique which they will rely on for writing, thinking and communicating throughout their schooling and beyond. It centers around a one week "boot camp" period in which students learn proper posture and fingering for all the letter and major punctuation keys with the aid of a mnemonic poem. After students can key the alphabet by touch, speed and accuracy are developed over time, through frequent use of the skill on appropriate and relevant writing tasks required for other subject areas. The teacher's role after the initial boot camp training period consists of planning student keying tasks suitable to their developing skill levels, and monitoring constantly for proper technique. Any teacher can teach touch-keyboarding effectively once he or she understands the crucial technique fundamentals. The manual includes all necessary teaching materials—lesson plans, transparency masters, reproducible handouts, assessment tools, parent information, etc.
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• Training classes for teachers, offered either online or in small groups at school sites. The classes build from the material in the manual, and go into greater depth in three main areas: setting up optimum conditions for learning to keyboard; ergonomic and health concerns related to keyboard use; and the value of keyboarding when it is used as a tool for learning in other subjects. Research findings related to touch-keyboarding instruction are reviewed. Teachers learn to recognize and correct keyboarding technique and posture problems which will minimize efficiency if allowed to become habitual, and which may cause repetitive stress injury over time. They learn low-cost and no-cost ways of adapting workstations to minimize health risks to children. They explore the ways in which keyboarding skill development goes hand in hand with the productive uses for the skill in student work throughout the elementary curriculum, and how it can enhance learning in other subjects.
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