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The Alabama
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (AlaPT3)
Catalyst grant addresses governor Don Siegelman's, state
superintendent, Ed Richardson's objective to add new teachers to
the workforce who are well-prepared to improve achievement of
all students by using technology wisely and well. Since 1992,
Alabama has employed 27,520 new teachers, an average of 2,556
teachers per year, with record high retirements projected over
the next ten years. The activities proposed will result in
implementing new technology certification standards for all
thirty (30) teacher preparation programs, pinpoint effective
technology use practices in P-20 schools, and construct an
infrastructure to disseminate those practices. Additionally, a
major feature of the AlaPT3 Catalyst grant is to train higher
education faculty who will then develop and share technology
resources to improve teaching and learning experiences for all
students regardless of economic, geographic, racial, or special
needs issues. Within five (5) years the term,
""digital divide,"" will no longer exist in
Alabama. |
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The outcomes
of this project include:
1) a set of technology use and integration components that
adhere to NCATE-approved ISTE standards that will be
incorporated in revisions of state teacher preparation
program approval standards;
2) improved learning cultures that reflect the
collaboration of key individuals and application of
technologies to produce P-20 students who can work
together and think critically and creatively to learn and
solve real problems.
Please click
here to see the
grant outcome in table and map views.
To view AlaPT3 Overview presentation, please click here. |
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The
goals of the project are four-fold. They include:
1) designing/using intensive measurements to gather pre-service
and first-year teacher, and teacher preparation faculty technology
use/integration information;
2) using data to define successful technology use and integration
components in existing teacher preparation programs;
3) achieving state board approval for including those components
as standards in Alabama's Teacher Education Program Approval
Standards;
4) developing and disseminating technology use and integration
standards and resources for achieving quality teacher preparation
programs via web delivery, web casts, distance and on-site
conferences, a Listserve, and CD ROM applications.
The activities proposed in this PT3 Catalyst Grant consist of
conducting in-depth research into pre-service and first-year
teacher, and teacher preparation faculty use and integration of
technology, pinpointing those effective teacher preparation
practices that lead to successful use and integration,
institutionalizing those successful practices by designing
requirements for state teacher preparation program approval
standards, and finally, providing an infrastructure to develop and
share successful program instructional methods. |
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Office of
Technology Initiatives
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AlaPT3,
Center for Educational Accountability, UAB
EB 248 901 13th Street South
Birmingham, Al. 35294-1250
sash@uab.edu
Phone: 205-975-9434
Fax:: 205.975.5389 |
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