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In-service Teachers Teaching Pre-service Teachers Technology
John H. Durnin
Department of Education and Human Services
Villanova University
USA
jdurnin@email.vill.edu
The proposed project is an initiative through university courses to have graduate in-service teachers, who have learned
the use of technology for classroom instruction, offer workshops to undergraduate pre-service teachers. The goals of the
project are two-fold. One is to prepare in-service teachers for collegial leadership in using instructional technology
through experience in planning and offering workshops to pre-service teachers, and the second is to prepare pre-service
teachers for the instructional use of technology in the classroom.
The specific objectives of the project are to develop in pre-service teachers, as well as the in-service teachers, the
competencies:
$ To facilitate student use of multimedia systems in their subject matter learning
$ To develop instructional material and lessons that involve students in the investigation of content areas
through the use of technology.
$ To implement the WWW as an educational resource for both teaching and student learning
$ To develop computer generated verbal and graphic presentations to use with direct instruction
$ To develop and deliver lessons that use the interactive capabilities of commercial software, CD ROM, laser
disc, digital versatile disc and video cassette to involve students in the subject matter.
$ To assist students in their applications of technology to communicate about a subject
$ To guide student use of technology for individual or group inquiries into academic subjects.
To accomplish these objectives, a multiple sections undergraduate professional development course for pre-service
teachers will be given during a 14 week semester. Concurrently, a graduate course on using technology in the classroom
will be offered to in-service teachers.
The proposed technologically enhanced undergraduate course will be presented in a recently renovated computer
classroom/laboratory that can accommodate 16 students per class, each on a computer. The computers are networked
new Power MacIntosh G3's. The classroom/laboratory also houses two color printers, a scanner, a laser disc player, a
video cassette recorder, camcorder, a digital versatile disc (DVD) player and CD rewriteable drive. The room will also
serve the graduate course for in-service teachers.
The graduate course will be offered once a week in early evening. The undergraduate sections will each be offered for 2 2
hours once a week on a late afternoon schedule to make them available to the graduate students directing the workshops. The
graduate students will receive intensive instruction on technology with respect to operating systems, minor maintenance and
troubleshooting, functions of computer networking and printing, word processing, data base, spread sheet, slide show and
presentation software, CD ROM, laser disc, DVD and the WWW with regard to classroom teaching. They, in turn, will be
divided into teams to present three 2 2 hour workshops each, under the supervision of a university professor, to the preservice
teachers. The workshops will be used to instruct the pre-service teachers in the generic technology competencies
listed previously. In total, the pre-service teachers will receive six workshops focusing specifically on the use of technology
in the classroom directed by the in-service teachers during the 14 week semester. In this manner the pre-service teachers will
be learning and interacting with the in-service teachers concerning technology in the implementation of the above
competencies. Furthermore, the in-service teachers by instructing the pre-service teachers will be improving their own
expertise beyond the novice level and demonstrating leadership that could aid them in the facilitation of technology among
their colleagues.
As a requirement of the undergraduate course the pre-service teachers will be expected to spend, at least, three hours with an
in-service teacher in a secondary or elementary school classroom. The pre-service teacher will be required to develop in
conjunction with the in-service teacher a short lesson that can be given to the elementary or secondary students. Since all of
the schools in the participating school district have a computer laboratory, the pre-service teacher will develop a lesson using
that facility. Thus, the undergraduate students will have an opportunity to apply their newly acquired technological abilities in