In the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020: Teaching and Learning section. The area of teaching and learning is how teachers go about teaching their students the information they need to be successful. Inside this report the state summarizes that we are no longer at a place were a one size fits all approach can be used for teaching. There are so many different types of students coming from such a vaired background and to try and teach them all the same would be doing them a great diservice. In order to level the playing field as they say in the article technology comes in and gives all students the chance to have exposure to the world around them. From the 2009-2010 progress report for the state, we see that the number of advanced tech teachers in improving, going from 29% to about 35%. This is a good step in the right direction because with more exposure to using technology in the classroom, teachers may continue to move forward and start increase the target tech percentage for the state. In order to keep the momentum we must keep those developing tech teachers motivated to learn more by offereing more staff development. Something convient would be online tech classes that the state puts out through the TEA website. The videos could teach teachers about new technology and how it can be used the in classroom. Having something like would keep teachers interested and since it is convient there may be more of positive response.
References:
Scott, R. Texas Education Agency, (2010). 2010 progress report on the long-range plan for technology, 2010 Austin, TX: Retrieved from http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=5096&menu_id=2147483665
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