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As teaching evolves, teacher education must keep up. This book
examines systemic reforms that incorporate new technology to
improve any teacher education program.While there are books that
address the integration of technology into teaching curricula, very
few address the process for teacher education faculty and the
systemic reform of a teacher education program. Integrating
Information Technology into the Teacher Education Curriculum:
Process and Products of Change provides practical examples and
suggestions for teacher education departments striving to integrate
new technologies into their curriculum. It will help in the effort
to motivate faculty to make utilizing new technology a natural
strategy for the teachers they are educating. It describes the
creation of Design Teams at Brigham Young University's McKay School
of Education (funded by a PT3 grant) and how these teams worked to
successfully reconfigure the school's teacher preparation
curricula.Integrating Information Technology into the Teacher
Education Curriculum examines: how to compose and create a
curriculum design team--including both teacher education and
content-specific methods instructors training and collaboration
opportunities that focus on the infusion of technology how to
facilitate alignment among a university, cooperating school
districts, the State Office of Education, and other available
teacher preparation programs specific case examples of the
redevelopment of teacher education courses by the instructors who
teach them the process of changing a technology course required by
the teacher education program the process of extending grant
activities to the university's partner school districts and the
State Office of Education"From the editors: Preparing tomorrow's
teachers to use technology in schools is a complex endeavor
requiring the infusion of technology into curriculum and
instructional practices at all levels of the pre-service program.
In many early teacher education programs, prospective teachers took
a computer literacy class separate from content methods classes and
rarely engaged in real collaboration on how schoolteachers could
integrate technology into authentic learning experiences. By
focusing merely on how to use computers, technology training failed
by not addressing how to teach students more effectively using a
variety of technological tools. What teachers need to know most is
how to teach content more effectively. Technology integration
should cause teachers to develop different perspectives through
rethinking teaching and learning. Teaching with technology causes
teachers to confront their established beliefs about instruction
and their traditional roles as classroom teachers."
Ten Bridges, Seven Churches, No Stop Light is a riveting tale of
small town people living exciting lives. This journey will have you
hanging onto the farm sleigh as the team of draft horses fall
through the ice. Everett and Rose take on the largest company in
the world and you can work with them to correct the problem. Ring
the bell on the assembly line and tell the car and truck
manufacturers to fix it before you push the start button. Hide in
the dark with Manley, a World War II sniper, as he tries to stay
alive to get home. Go on the fall deer hunt, fall in love, with
teenager Jake Payne and learn how the lure of the hunt is more than
the hunt. Visit Ruthie in the auto wrecking yard as she teaches her
younger brothers to take apart wrecks for parts. Gentlemen, there
is only one Ruthie. Fall in step with Jack Wilson, the Ice Man, as
he walks backwards towards global warming. He has more opinions
than an arena filled with coaches at playoff time and if you can't
find yours he will give you one. Try to catch up to Fargo and Rusty
as the two brothers enter the monopoly world of alcohol. Like the
Ouse River that flows through town and meanders on its way to Rice
Lake, life carries our characters on numerous side trips where they
did not plan on visiting. Hang on to your copy for dear life. These
small town people deliver a big message. Make a bowl of popcorn,
grab your favourite drink, and then curl up for a good read.
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