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"Teacher training needs to shift away from one-shot workshops and move toward a model of ongoing, sustainable professional development"--Sounds like something from one of our recent online discussions! Check out recommendations for innovating teachers' professional development from the State Educational Technology Directors Association. -
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This is an interesting teacher training project connected with the George Lucas Educational Foundation to promote inclusive and tolerant classrooms. This course provides really useful materials like lesson plans, but also support for teachers confronting their own prejudice in the classroom and how to combat this. -
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Leading microchip maker Intel Corp plans to spend $300 million over the next four years on a Web training program to help teachers incorporate technology into their lesson plans. -
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IN FIVE years, there's going to be a teacher shortage, Tom Carroll said Monday at a Simmons College conference. Two groups will collide: The wave of retiring baby-boom teachers will crash into the wave of teachers who exit the profession after five years or less, leaving a lot of empty desks at the front of the class. Every state faces this crisis, explains Carroll... -
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This paper proposes structure and content for in-service training of teachers in the use of OLPC, using the OLPT. The operation of the OLPC works with activities being the central concept; this is contrary to the MS Windows approach, where applications are the central concept. This and other differences must be conveyed to tutors, teachers and pupils. -
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Series of reports on teacher, administrator, and researcher education, drawing on surveys of over 1,200 schools and departments of education. Includes Arthur Levine's Educating School Teachers report. -
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Read the first chapter of The Teacher gap by James Hiebet and James Stigler, who argue that education improvement requires better teacher training and applied ed research. "Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom."
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