Technology as a Key Element
Technology is a key element in achieving the six goals of the Southern Colorado Teacher Education Alliance. SCTEA has targeted five goals to improve teacher education in the southern region of Colorado, with technology used to achieve each of these goals.
Goal 1: Recruitment of future teachers
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Create
a community of future teachers by developing connections
across partners, including
- An interactive web site for all future teacher groups, their sponsors, and the recruitment working group
- Distance and telecommunication applications to connect future teacher groups, student leadership, sponsors, and the recruitment working group for meetings, programs, and other activities.
Goal 2: Develop a standards driven instructional model in the liberal arts and other areas.
- Develop a web based program description to articulate each licensure program's content standards, course benchmarks, assessment procedures, proficiency requirements, and samples of student work indicating proficiency at different levels.
- Develop an interactive web site for curriculum reform on-line in which faculty from each content area at CSU-Pueblo and each community college partner can collaborate on-line.
Goal 3: Improve performance of program graduates by strengthening professional education programs.
- Utilize technology to strengthen learning communities during student teaching. Students will communicate with supervisors and peers via web-based telecommunication and partner distance classrooms.
- Strengthen resources for technology use for students in all licensure areas by continuing to improve resources across programs at CSU-Pueblo, in field experiences and student teaching classrooms, and at partner colleges.
- Develop early proficiencies in required technology class and revise requirements in all professional education classes to meet state and national technology standards.
- Implement activities for cooperating teachers, field experience students, and pre-service teachers in k-12 classrooms to assist pre-service students in meeting these technology standards.
- Work collaboratively with college partners to develop early experience technology class for pre-service teachers at community colleges.
- Develop a protocol for a web based portfolio for all pre-service teachers, working collaboratively with college partners offering technology class.
Goal 4: Improve the quality of instruction and learning for pre-service teachers.
- Develop a web site to provide faculty resources, document faculty activities, and provide conferencing capabilities to develop and strengthen writing across the curriculum and technology use.
Goal 5: Strengthening of Teacher Induction
- Implement an ongoing, web based strategy for identifying needs of beginning teachers, their mentors, and district induction coordinators.
- Develop and implement a web-based dissemination system for Resource Center materials.
- Develop both synchronous and asynchronous web-based staff development activities correlated with identified beginning teacher needs.
- Utilize the distance classrooms in partner schools for staff development.
- Develop a variety of conferencing on the web support groups for beginning teachers.
- Utilize the distance classrooms in partner schools and web based communications to connect beginning teachers with human resources such as university faculty, master teachers.
Goal 6: Continue to develop the SCTEA infrastructure to support project goals.
- Develop a data management system to track project goals and outcomes involving student recruitment, retention, and student progress
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