And, teachers do not want to give up their evenings or weekend time so workshops start and end with the school day. The format of the teacher training workshops includes presentations, demonstrations, small group discussions and hands-on experiences. Many teachers have just one computer in a classroom. The workshop provides practical suggestions, motivating activities and hands-on experience to give these teachers valuable ideas and techniques that they can apply immediately following the workshop. For those schools with computer laboratories, the participating teachers learn procedures for selecting and implementing software.
Teachers review software during each workshop.
We Teach The involvement and support of administrators is also critical to successful integration of technology. To accomplish this at least one administrator is expected to attend a planning meeting before selecting facilitators to conduct workshops. An administrator should attend the first half-day of the teacher training workshop at their school. As a product of the workshops the teachers in each school develop an Action Plan. In the first three workshops, they begin to more fully understand their future needs.