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Equipping Teachers to Infuse
A PD expert offers optionsto meet the needs of your district.
TEchnology
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A teacher of at-risk students at Macomb (Ill.) School District undergoes online professional development, via STAR-online, during last year’s “Summer Experience”, which is part of STARonsite at Western Illinois University.
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n a district-wide professional development day, a consultant presents to an auditorium of 250 teachers and conducts follow-up sessions with smaller groups throughout the day. The event is chockfull of information, and the teachers feel good about the resources and skills they have learned. The consultant departs at the end of the day knowing she has done her job. However, the teachers do not get the time to reflect and practice the skills learned, and their excitement about the new information soon wanes. if only they had had access to webbased resources for supporting technology professional development. The tools available for both presenting and continuing the collaboration between colleagues and the presenter are plentiful. There are many models of technology professional development from which districts can select to make
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