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1.
Survey Instruments.
Following the AlaPT3 timeline,
we have sent out surveys to First Year and Veteran
teachers, higher education faculty, students, cooperating
teachers, and student teacher supervisors to determine
baseline data of technology use and integration. All these
surveys are based on the appropriate ISTE standards.
The results of these surveys will be used to:
a.) build a library of surveys to be posted on Profiler
for you and other higher education and K-12 administrators
to use to gather data on technology use and integration
for you to make decisions about your technology planning,
training, needs, etc.--you will have administrator access
to this data for your campus,
b.) provide findings,
c.) launch a set of recommendations to the Dean's group,
and get feedback (via USA's PT3),
d.) provide final recommendations to the SBE in the fall
to provide standards and support guidelines for 30 Teacher
Preparation programs in Alabama.
Your role: At the May meeting, discuss these
instruments and how they can best be used to help you in
your local initiative, and provide feedback about the
structure of the recommendations for program certification
to the Deans and then to the SBE.
2.
Legislation. There
are two bills that contain content that we were involved
in drafting that specifically relates to AlaPT3's
work.
Your role: Read the legislation. It was created to
support technology integration standards and AlaPT3.
Contact your legislators.
3.
Research. Grant
staff are developing a concise database of State
Technology Initiatives. The content of this activity will
be posted under the research directory of our web soon.
Your role: When it is posted, you will be
notified. Go there, and provide feedback at the May
meeting.
4.
Spring Meeting.
This meeting will be held at the Alabama Power Company
building in Birmingham on May 3, 4. The purpose will be to
plan the AlaPT3 strand of AETC, and discuss
integration and AlaPT3 issues. You will receive
a consultant stipend.
Your role: a.) Help plan the AlaPT3 Resource
Development Summit that will take place on June 13, 14 at
the Sheraton, downtown Birmingham;
b.) Help us identify higher education faculty technology
integrators beforehand (more to come on this soon); c.)
Review all instruments we have developed and decide the
best way to provide these to all preparation programs; d.)
Provide feedback on how to provide recommendations and
support Deans will need to implement the new program
certification standards.
5. AlaPT3
Resource Development Summit
(See Timeline, Activity 8).
Your registration for AETC will be paid for--do not
register online. You will also receive a consultant
stipend.
Your role: Help facilitate the process that we
agree on at our May meeting to gather "best
practices" activities. Attend the AETC conference
when you are not helping with higher education and K-12
faculty as they prepare their Resource Palettes. The Star
Integrators will bring their ideas to the summit and we
will capture their effective activities in each of the
core subject areas, as well as "best practices"
in K-12 in Resource Palettes. We will have at our
disposal, 60 Technology in Motion computers.
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