PDQ (Professional Development QuickTips)
Classroom Tools
Category:
Curriculum Integration
Tip:
It is difficult to avoid teaching technology itself even when we all know that the ultimate goal is to improve teaching and learning through technology-enhanced lesson plans. But here are ways to focus technology tools as teaching tools.
- Teach technology at the teachers' level, not as a business tool: Eg. how a word processor works for writing, most common functions for teachers, etc.
- Show examples of how the tool can be used in a classroom using sample integrated lessons.
- Brainstorm how the technology can be used in their curriculum.
- For long sessions, get more detailed and use a more standards-based approach to creating these integrated projects/units
From the discussions and examples, teachers leave each staff development session with actual projects they can use in their classroom immediately assuming they have access to the technology.
Submitted by:
Ernesto "Ernie" R. Delgado
President and Co-Founder
BEYOND Technology Education, Inc.
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