Preservice Technology Infusion part of the Education Reform Network

You are in: Educational Type —>

Best practice

The processes, practices, or systems identified in public and private organizations that performed exceptionally well and are widely recognized as improving an organization's performance and efficiency in specific areas.

• Community of Learners Toolkit
  The Individualized Technology Plan is a form designed to assist higher education faculty members in planning their technology learning goals. The form helps faculty outline their technology goals, activities, timelines and evaluation standards.
• Customizing Your Technology Assessment
  Three school districts (South Huntington; North Lawrence Community School; and Kyrene) have developed and carried out a technology assessment. Here is a description of assessments and lessons learned.
• Get Started On Our Site: Principals
  A collection of articles related to the role of the principals in school change and reform.
• Handhelds in the Classroom
  Four schools share their experiences with portable digital assistants, aka handhelds.
• Making Technology Work for Every Child
  Redondo Union High School, in Redondo Beach, CA, gives every 9th grader a wireless/infrared notebook computer, customized to access library resources, the Internet, and electronic learning tools. Combining technology and instruction, the "Freshman Foundation Program" is having profound effects on students and teachers.
• Math WebQuests
  A presentation from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual meeting. Includes math projects which use Internet resources to obtain relevant data.
• PT3 Profiler
  Use Profiler to strengthen your organization's ability to share expertise. You can build or take an online survey to assess your abilities in any given subject and then utilize Profiler to locate someone who can help you strengthen these skills within your immediate learning community.
• Teaching History in Inclusive Classrooms: Technology-Based Practices and Tools
  An 8-page document describing ways to use technology when teaching history.
• Technology Prerequisite Tutorials
  Short, animated tutorials on technology-related knolwedge and skills that are considered prerequisite to successful classroom use. Over 150 currently available, and more added each week.