The Office of Educational Technology in the United States Department of Education is launching a new initiative designed to "explore the potential for online communities to support professional educators."
A community college in Arizona is teaming up with the New York Times to produce online teacher preparation courses.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/21/11
A study conducted by Edvantia found that teachers using the National Science Teachers Association's SciPacks professional development tool increased their own content knowledge and improved student learning.
Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas is taking its Head Start bachelor's degree completion program online.
Source for Learning has launched TeachersFirst 3.0, the latest version of its free site for teacher resources and professional development.
A Georgia school district is using a hosted solution, mentoring, and professional development to get its teachers up to speed with collaborative classroom technology.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 06/15/11
Randa Solutions is gearing up to release a new teacher observation system for Android and iPad, TOWER Mobile.
In our ongoing effort to overhaul teacher evaluations, we're creating a potential disaster for education by adopting value-added models to rate the effectiveness of individual educators.
- By Patricia Deubel
- 06/08/11
Experts now say that when it comes to crafting successful plans for STEM funding, short-term and piecemeal are out, while long-term and strategic are in.
Ed tech may be more of a rallying point for the community than some would expect, as one K-12 district in Florida learned. The district tried once and failed to get support for a tax increase for capital projects. The second time around, though, technology was added to the referendum. The result? Funds aplenty to pay for IT initiatives across 39 campuses and for rigorous teacher training to support those initiatives.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 06/02/11