Summary on: Mission Possible: Teaching Through Technology

This article is about a teacher that wanted to introduce technology into the classrooms. She asked herself “What should students know and able to do if the school had a staff highly trained in technology and a quality program to integrate technology into teaching?”. “As I began to shape my vision, two things became paramount: First, I wanted every teacher to become proficient in using technology in all aspects of instruction. Second, I wanted to create an infrastructure that would be self-sustaining and self-renewing”.
They began by identifying and making use of systems and applications resources already available to secondary schools, in their district, such as e-mail, free Web sites, and Web-based programs. Determining the needs within each
grade level was the next step. Through self-evaluation and assessment tools, they identified hardware and software needs, teacher proficiency levels, and teacher interest in integrating technology into the curriculum. With this information, they were able to outline a professional training program and to begin building a scaffold that would support a five-year plan of technology infusion.



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