Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Educational
Bonnie Bracey
interested in the New Initiative that is going to be run by Tom Carroll ,
Director
Preparing tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology....Title III Elementary and
Secondary Education
It involves capacity building grants, implementation grants, and catalyst
grants..I August of 1999 the U.S. Dept of Deducation will award $75 million
for grants to prepare tomorrow's teachers to use modern learning technologies.
To guarantee that teaches are proficient in the technologies they will find in
the 21st century schools, teacher preparation programs must insure that their
students master the instructional strategies, learning styles, and content
applications enabled by these new learning tools. These efforts might include
collaborative partnerships among higher education faculty working with
undergraduate and graduate studnts , and the teaches and students in a local
school district. Such teams of faculty , teaches and students assisted by
professional associations, foundations and business partners could join forces
to adpat or create technology rich content and instructional strategies that
woudl be mastered by the future teachers participating in these teams.
Consortium parnerships might also engage in efforts to incorporate instruction
technology performances and content standards into graduation, certification
and recruitment for new and reentry teachers.
Three Kinds of Grants
Capacity Building Grants
Implementation Grants
Catalyst Grants
Program Director
Thomas G. Carroll PhD
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology
US Dept of Education, Higher Education Programs/OPE
1280 Maryland Avenue, Suite 600
Washington DC 20202
Phone 202-708-8596
Fax 202 260-8412
Tom_C...@ed.gov
Information: Ray Myers
Office of Educational Technology
202 205-9942
Ray_...@ed.gov
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