US/ND-4: Re: Re: Professional Development - comments on comments
Re: Re: Professional Development - comments on comments
Brenda Williams (Brenda_Williams@kcpt.org)
16 Sep 1996 15:07:09 GMT
Mario Zinga,zinga@pps.pgh.pa.us,uucp writes:
The K12 environment is not the same as the
university. Most teachers are responsible for 120 students a day. The
number of computers with Internet access is small.
Not only do teachers have at least 120 students a day, their duties include
grading the papers for all of those, in some schools doing the paperwork that
secretaries used to do or lunchroom cashiers, doing the testing and often
even the counseling that should be done by counselors, being a parent for
younger students who have negative home lives, and then rushing to lunchroom
and playground duties, etc. They do not have 3 months off in the summer
because they are catching up and then preparing for the next school year
because there is little creative time when the year starts. There is a major
difference between K-12 and university instructors.
Perhaps, students of university instructors could develop materials as
projects in collaboration with local schools and help train local school
teachers/students in Internet access. The scope of dollars from Universal
Service must be somewhat limited to be affordable--the outside and inside
connections are more suitable to the scope we can hope for being provided.