Document Type
Issue Area Five
Abstract
We should use a five-year training curriculum that will increase teachers' comfort levels, raise their level of concern, and infuse technology into our curriculum.
Before implementing a plan for training teachers to use available technology in their classrooms, a technology plan should be adopted. It should include a mission statement, an inventory, goals, and a vision of future acquisitions, both hardware and software. It should also include a long range plan for teacher inservice, funded by a generous share of the technology budget. If it is possible, a technology coordinator should be hired who would, among other things, oversee a training program which would include college courses, large group presentations, workshops, small group hands-on training, and individualized instruction with the aid of building mentors who have received training in advance of their assignments. A purposeful training curriculum should be written which would take into consideration the slow process of teacher change. It should be a multi-year curriculum which provides both practical and pedagogical support that will eventually cause an evolution into new kinds of learning and classroom instruction. It should contain an instrument for assessment while it encourages with incentives. Finally, it should increase teachers' comfort level while raising their levels of concern.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
156
Last Page
160
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1996 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Kollman, Debbie
(1996)
"A How-to for Guiding Teachers into Technology Usage,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 46.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol6/iss1/46
