March 2008 — Features
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Five on Five: A Dialogue on Profession Development
Groller: I see two major changes. First, one of the things that we recently recognized was a resource that's staring us in the face: our students. We created a program called Tech Wizard, where we work with a group of sixth-grade students and advisers and train them on technology integration. Their role is to return to their school districts and be responsible for the professional development of the teachers and administrators within those districts. We have found that the kids are extremely excited. Like it or not, they're a generation ahead of us in their technology understanding. A second change would be that we look at professional development and couch it in a framework of curriculum. I mean that we don't teach technology in isolation, but rather teach it in alignment with differentiated instruction and project-based learning. It's critical to keep professional development in a constructivist approach. Otherwise, it's not development at all.
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