The Certificate Program in Classroom Technology is a series of courses that equips teachers to meet the school systems technology standards and integrate technology into their instruction. Participants take six graduate level one-credit courses from a menu of courses offered throughout the school year. Each course involves instruction in the software itself, as well as tips on how to integrate this new knowledge in K-12 classrooms. UVA offers these courses on an open-enrollment basis at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon.
School systems can also arrange for the courses to be offered on-site at a local school.
More than 300 teachers in Buchanan, Lee, Dickenson, Tazewell and Washington counties and the City of Bristol have earned their certificates at a school close to home. Typically, college administrators in student life, admissions, financial aid, the business office and other support services do not have a nearby opportunity to earn a degree that complements and enhances their career goals. Now, potentially, you do. The University of Virginia will deliver the master s degree in social foundations of education, with an emphasis on higher education, in Abingdon if enough interested persons from the regional colleges apply. The degree program is a broad-based look at the history, economics, governance, and sociology of higher education and the issues and competitive forces that impact the field every day.