RE: Technology training for teachers

Bob implies that maybe our self-assessment regarding teacher-training in technology is overly generous, since most tnew eachers arrive at their new jobs with word-processing and maybe a little skill in one other application. Many of us have produced tech-skills inventories for our students and fellow teachers to help with the "mentoring" or teaching duties we face. I suggest that those inventories are routinely three years out-of-date and therefore are almost obsolete.

If this "Master Plan" doesn't give up on the "single curriculum" concept because of the confusion reigning in that thread, maybe we can jointly build a dynamic curriculum database the includes teacher-competencies as well as student ones. That database, in turn, would always be "up-to-date" (since it uses technology instead of antiquated paper for distribution). This database could also maintain personal skill data so all teachers (and teachers-in-training) can constantly know where they stand. (Sort of like we should have an online tool that our students use to always know exactly where THEY stand.)

Fortunately, someone I know is creating a VAULT (Virtually Anywhere Unified Learning Technology) containing all this data (Curriculum Frameworks, Master Plan, Textbook Content for all subjects, etc.) and the promised land is just the other side of the Red Sea! (Of course, I'm keeping the entire Sinai Desert a secret, as well as the Giants and the 40 year "time out" due to administrator, er, individual rebelliousness.)

Phil