What is InTech

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WhatisInTech?
Your Name Your School System/ETTC Date
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When it comes to technology in education, you can

• create it,
• design it,
• produce it,
• and legislate it,
• but the bottom line is...

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... teachers make it happen. Jacqueline Goodoe
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InTechTeachers Make IT Happen!
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WhatisInTech?
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What it is

• Professional Development program based on the
  ISTE NETS Standards.
• Complete immersion in a technology-rich
  professional development environment
• Taught through Model Lessons

• Curriculum Integration
• Performance- Based Assessment (4 lesson plans)
• Rigorous
• Designed to bring entry-level users to a point of
  general comfort with technology integration.

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What it isnt

• Skills-based training
• In-depth training on software

• Vendor-oriented
• Easy

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What Makes InTech Special?
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Georgias Five Critical Areas
1. Georgias QCC Content Standards
Simultaneous Skill Development
5. Enhanced Pedagogy
2. Use of Modern Technologies
4.New Designs for Teaching and Learning
3.ClassroomManagement
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1. Georgias QCCs
http//www.glc.k12.ga.us
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1. Georgia QCCs

• Substance and focus of all InTech training
  sessions
• Embedded in every technology-connected lesson plan

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2. Use of Modern Technologies

• Teachers assimilate basic technology skill set
  during InTech
• Technology skills are presented in the context of
  curricular lessons
• Technology skills are presented in undertones as
  teachers participate in model technology-connected
  lessons

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2. Use of Modern Technologies

• The Role of Technology is
• ...to help teachers teach and students learn the
  QCC Standards

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3. Classroom Management

• Effective Uses of Technology
• Creates a need for new classroom management
  strategies
• Causes traditional management strategies to
  become less effective
• Challenges most teachers

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4. New Designs for Learning
Changes in the structures of classroom learning
that evolve naturally as technologies are
embedded at the core of instruction
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4. New Designs for Learning

• Problem-based Learning
• Discovery-based learning
• Cooperative Learning
• Jigsaw
• Think-Pair-Share
• Peer Tutoring
• Each-one Teach-One
• Assistive Technology

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5. Enhanced Pedagogy

• The Science of Teaching and Learning
• New Designs for Learning drive changes in a
  teachers processes and procedures for delivering
  instruction
• Teachers belief structures become flexible and
  open to new ideas
• Shifts in the teaching and learning process