|
|
| Trade laptops
for time! |
|
Believing that greater access to technology
for their own use would encourage her teachers to make
greater use of technology, Bogan High School Principal
Linda Pierzchalski started a program to offer teachers
laptops for classroom and home use. Teachers had to write
a brief proposal describing how they would use the computers
and agree to spend 70 hours of their time getting technology
training or training others to use technology. |
| About 40 teachers participated.
The hours the teachers "owed" in exchange made it possible
for Bogan to offer both computer education courses after
school for parents and an extensive array of before-school
technology classes for their teacher colleagues. Pierzchalski
points out that if you compute the value of the time the
teachers are contributing in dollars, it far exceeds the
purchase price of the laptops, and everyone comes out
ahead. |
|
|
| Provide a practice
lab |
 |
Bogan
High School's principal, Linda Pierzchalski, arranged
for the setup of a teacher computer resource laboratory
to offer teachers a chance to try out new technologies
in an informal, unstructured setting. |
| She encourages
teachers to attend conferences and take training courses
in technology use, finding funds to support their professional
development. When teachers need additional resources to
support technology use, they can usually trust that if
their rationale is sound, she will find a way to make
it work. |
