Even though spending on teacher training remains a small part of school district technology budgets, there is growing concern that teachers are not adequately prepared to integrate technology into classroom instruction. We should have been wiring our teachers. If you can get a teacher to use technology to improve his or her productivity, you get a quantum change. Schools should show teachers how technology can make them more productive by, for example, automating grade book and attendance records, said Morino. There is an osmosis process.
People have to come to it in their own terms.
You start by creating a network for teachers. You show how it will help them. While the 17 percent spent on training pales in comparison to the amount spent on computer hardware, Stein said she was encouraged that spending on technology training has been steadily increasing. The NEA recommends that schools devote 40 percent of their technology budgets to teacher training. The 17 percent demonstrates progress is being made because it was so much worse in the past.