The U.S. Department of Education will sponsor a free, live teleconference on federal funding opportunities to support teaching and learning with technology. The teleconference will focus on available federal funding opportunities and provide technical assistance on issues,such as the grant process, completing the application package, evaluation and other relevant issues. Panelists from each program will describe application requirements and the intended impact that the program is expected to make across the panelists via telephone and fax. He will discuss the nation's need to recruit and train more than 2.2 million teachers over the next decade and the importance of making sure they are well prepared for today's and tomorrow's classroom. New research shows that there are many ways that schools, communities and families can help children to learn read well.
Teachers can adjust instruction for students' individual learning styles.
Principals can encourage reading in classrooms across the curriculum and support quality teaching. Parents can reinforce and extend the reading instruction that children receive in school, and librarians and other concerned individuals in local communities can help provide tutors, mentors and reading partners. Narrated by artistic director Brenda Way, this energetic introduction to the art form invites students to participate in the joy of movement and invention and features the company performing excerpts from OutaWak, a piece composed specifically for young people that explores both the verbal and the numerical world through dance. Digital broadcast radio and TV are offering many more channels and much clearer sound and pictures. By tracing the development of the telephone from its humble beginnings, based on the discoveries of Faraday, to the development of modern global telecommunications networks we will explain the basic principles of digital communications and how the present systems operate.