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Initiative 2:
Preparing Tomorrow?s Teachers to Use Technology

Tomorrow?s teachers must be prepared to integrate technology effectively into the curriculum and use the new teaching and learning styles enabled by technology. This initiative aims to promote improved teacher preparation by fostering increased collaboration across disciplines and among higher education, elementary and secondary schools and the private sector. Possible activities supported by this initiative include faculty development, greater efforts to include technology competence and content mastery in teacher certification and renewal initiatives, the creation of technology-based teaching tools and resources and field experiences focused on teaching with technology.

The program awards three types of grants:

1. One-year Capacity-Building Grants (138 awards made in FY 1999) were awarded to institutions that needed resources to scale up to systemic implementation. These grants help applicants build their capacity to implement full-scale teacher preparation initiatives during the second and third program years. The program will not make additional Capacity-Building awards in FY 2000.

2. Two types of Implementation Grants (64 three-year awards made in FY 1999, and two-year awards to be made in FY 2000) were awarded to successful capacity-building grantees. The ability of an applicant to generate matching resources from its partnerships is considered in the selection criteria.

3. Three-year Catalyst Grants (22 awards made in FY1999) were awarded to regional or national partnerships between institutions with established track records and promising strategies for systemic improvement in preparing tomorrow?s teachers to use technology. These partnerships must be prepared to marshal their resources to stimulate significant, innovative and large-scale improvements in the preparation and certification of tomorrow?s teachers.

Grants are awarded to institutions of higher education or consortia that partner with other agencies and organizations to implement systemic improvement in teacher preparation programs. Partners could include state education agencies, institutions of higher education and their schools of education, professional associations, the private sector and local education agencies.

Publications:
National Technology Plan is available at: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Plan

Fact sheets and questions and answers on this initiative are available on the U.S. Department of Education Web site at: http://www.ed.gov/inits/FY00/index.html.

Program Director:

Tom Carroll
Higher Education Programs Office
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
202-502-7788, Fax: 202-502-7775
e-mail: Tom.Carroll@ed.gov

Additional Contact:

Ray Myers
Office of Educational Technology
202-205-9942
e-mail: Ray.Myers@ed.gov

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