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Training Tomorrow’s
Teachers
“Technology Partnership to Link Student Teachers”
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Coe College, IA
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Luther College, IA
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Wartburg College, IA
Technology partnerships improve the student teaching
experience for elementary education majors by breaking down
the barriers of distance and isolation during the student
teaching semester through computer-based support networks and
monitoring programs.
Project Director: Deborah Norland
Luther College
319-387-1546
“Collaborative Training Program for Cooperating Teachers”
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Coe College, IA
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Luther College, IA
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Wartburg College, IA
Building on the above project, these colleges offer a program
using interactive technology to train the supervisors of
undergraduate, pre-service teachers in the fundamentals of
effective mentorship and student evaluation.
Project Director: Deborah Norland
Luther College
319-387-1546
“Strengthening Special Education Teacher Training”
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Brescia University, KY
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Butler University, IN
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University of Evansville, IN
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University of Saint Francis, IN
Special education faculty at these colleges develop web-based,
distance learning modules that provide students who are
pursuing special education licenses with the appropriate
guidance, coursework, and materials for independent study.
Project Director: John Swanson
University of Saint Francis
219-434-3100
“The 4 R’s Teacher Assistant Program”
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College of Saint Mary, NE
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Lynchburg College, VA
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Regis University, CO
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Saint Peter’s College, NJ
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Tulane University, LA
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University of Charleston, WV
Designed to “recruit student teachers, reinforce middle school
teachers, respond to the needs of middle school students and
reinvigorate volunteerism among college students,” this
program provides seed money to place students at six FIHE-affiliated
colleges as teacher assistants in middle schools that enroll a
high number of “at-risk” pupils.
“Assessment
and Training for Teachers”
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Whittier College, CA
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Berry College, GA
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McKendree College, IL
Designed to improve core
competencies of the teacher candidates, supervising faculty
and students in the application of technology in K-6
instruction and curriculum development. Assessment will be
conducted in five competency areas: E-mail, World Wide Web,
troubleshooting, curriculum portfolio development, and
educational software evaluation.
Project Director:
Kathleen S. Ralph
Whittier College
562-907-4322
“Inquiry, Interaction and
Technology: A Model for Facilitating the Use of Technology as
a Tool for Teaching and Learning”
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Swarthmore College, PA
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Bryn Mawr College, PA
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Haverford College, PA
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University of Pennsylvania, PA
A program to enable the
participating institutions to introduce pre-service teachers
to three distinct but potentially linkable sets of resources,
The Math Forum (a virtual resource center for mathematics
education), Serendip (a website that has as its primary
objective to provide a rich environment of interactive
demonstrations and experiences which encourage visitors,
irregardless of background, to think more deeply about the
underpinnings of their own behavior and that of others) and
Communities of Connected Learners (a website that teaches how
to create web-based curricula and to design a curricular unit
or website which will involve K-12 students in inquiry-based,
constructivist learning) in a carefully sequenced series of
inquiry-based workshops and follow up assignments for all
elementary secondary pre-service teacher education programs at
these institutions.
Project Director:
Eva F. Travers
Swarthmore College
610-328-8656
“Teachers, Technology and Portfolios
- Changing Pedagogy and Assessment in the Information Age”
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Iona College, NY
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Bellarmine College, KY
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University of Scranton, PA
A program that will have student
teachers create web-based, digital portfolios, which are used
as assessment tools in the evaluation of their preparation to
teach in a global and technologically oriented society. The
portfolio strategy is an assessment tool that allows for the
gathering of multiple measures during the teacher preparation
program.
Project Director:
Dianne Goldsby
Iona College
914-633-2078
“Technology Education for College
and High-school Students (TECH)”
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Augustana College, SD
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Dakota Wesleyan University, SD
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University of Sioux Falls, SD
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Oglala College, SD
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Sinte Gleska College, SD
Designed to allow education majors
to explore the many uses of educational technology while also
learning about real-world teaching situations, mentoring,
collaboration, and cultures different from their own.
Project Director:
Sharon Andrews and Mary Friehe
Augustana College
605-336-4629
“Retooling Educators Though
Technology Project”
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Gonzaga University, WA
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Hastings College, NE
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Carthage College, WI
A three pronged approach to: 1)
Encourage college faculty to become comfortable with
technology so that they integrate computers into their
classes; 2) Have faculty model technology as part of the
curriculum and help their students develop lesson plans for
K-12 classrooms; and 3) Have K-12 teachers use these lessons
and offer ideas and suggestions to education majors. As a
bonus, RET will unite teachers in three areas of the country,
offering diverse perspectives on teaching and learning.
Project Director:
Angie Parker
Gonzaga University
509-328-4220, ext. 3494
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