Provide technology-related training at campus sites if at all possible. Teachers already have a busy day. Asking them to take time to leave their campus to drive to the downtown Education Center and back simply gives them another reason for declining to participate. The instructional technology facilitator and regional instructional technology coordinators develop a strategy for providing training at campus sites to the extent possible. April 1999 2.
Training is provided on school campuses whenever possible.
This recommendation could be implemented with existing resources. Another approach to training has emerged in business and is rapidly being adapted to education. This new approach uses technology as a delivery mechanism for training. Teachers with home computers, or with computers they can check out for home use, sign on to the Internet to take courses offered by both public and private entities. Some are primitive, consisting of little more than lecture notes placed on line.