They also produce and host an interactive Web site for their own classrooms. A course in which participants learn how to integrate technology into classroom instruction and curriculum development. Technology as a tool for change in schools is explored. Participants use word processing, databases, spreadsheets, and classroom desktop publishing. Instructors emphasize project-based learning approaches consistent with the need to consider various learning styles.
Participants develop projects that require direct involvement with students in their own classrooms.
A 150-hour experience demonstrating mastery of subject matter knowledge. A minimum of 100 hours must be spent at the level of the certificate sought working with children in a public school setting, a Chapter 766-approved private school, an institutional setting or any combination of these sites. Fifty hours of the practicum may take place in a non-educational clinical setting. Prerequisite course cannot be taken concurrently with Practicum. 14.946 Using the Computer as a Research Tool A course which provides teachers and administrators with strategies for developing and implementing computer-assisted research.