The grants will support teacher preparation improvements in nearly every state and region in the country. A majority of the grants focus on improving technology use in low-income communities and rural areas and among minority groups and special populations. That can only happen if teachers have the training to best use technology. Today, two out of three teachers with access to a computer say they don't feel well prepared to use it in class. We owe it to America's children to help their teachers become as comfortable with a computer as they are with a chalkboard.
Teacher education is part of the program.
SEED is the brainchild of William Johntz, a psychologist, mathematician and math teacher from Berkeley, California. Planted in 1963, SEED has a track record of success. The program uses the Socratic method and gives remedial students higher-level work. Classes examine wrong answers as seriously as correct ones, until all students understand what worked and what did not. Due to the Socratic method, class discussions are lively.