A Time for Every Purpose Districts should spend approximately half of their professional development budgets on time for teacher invention. When teachers are encouraged to build technology-enhanced lessons and units, new technologies find a welcome mat awaiting their arrival and installation. The creation of a vigorous teacher invention program is a rewarding path to technology acceptance and program integration. This professional development strategy may even engage some teachers who have seemed reluctant in the past.
Teachers deserve a chance to convert theory into practice.
As they invent, they can customize lessons to match their own students' needs. They also end up feeling pride of ownership. They emerge from the invention workshop with a vested interest in seeing the results of their efforts. They want to be present in the delivery room. Teams Teachers gather together for a day or more.