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teachers become familiar with computers and various
software applications, their training needs move
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Resources from other areas:
Effective programs for training
teachers in the use of technology http://www.computerlearning.org/articles/training.htm
NCREL's Technology Leadership Team Institute: creating
incentives for technology use
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/thepoint/techtoc.htm
What states are doing
http://www.milkenexchange.org/progress/21taf?page=table09.html
Creating the Vanguard: identifying and grooming the pioneers
http://staffdevelop.org/cadre.html
Plan tech
training
Once teachers become familiar with
computers and various software applications, their training
needs move to curricular integration.
The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district provides teachers
with a wide range of technology courses. These courses
have taught teachers who were not familiar with computers
all of the basics. In addition to meeting the needs of
new users of technology, school districts should explore
the training needs of more experienced users of technology.
Bogan High School's principal, Linda Pierzchalski, suggests
that training could be done for different groupings of
staff, and that these groupings could be their own trainers:
"It would be really nice to bring together those
teachers who use a lot of multimedia, for example, to
talk about what they are doing or to show a short clip
of 'what I have done' kind of thing. Because that is how
they learn best--from each other. Schools have bought
technology, and they have learned how to do some really
neat things with what they have, even on a limited budget.
So sharing with each other what is going on could be a
new aspect of technology training."
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