50 innovative educators are selected to attend each GTA based on the merits of their online application. Potential applicants include classroom teachers, curriculum specialists, technology specialists, librarians, administrators, professional trainers, and other education professionals who actively serve the worlds’ primary and secondary teachers and students.
Participants are selected based on their professional experience, their passion for teaching and learning, and their successful use of technology in school settings. Since the program relies on a "train-the-trainers" model, we are particularly interested in educators who actively provide technology-related mentoring or training for classroom teachers.
Alan Christy on 12 Feb 12There are many types of cognitive and learning disabilities and an even wider variety of interests and capabilities of users who have these disabilities.This population is larger than those with all other physical and sensory disabilities combined. Cognitive accessibility can be defined by the following principles: Simple, Consistent, Clear, Multi-modal, Error-tolerant, Attention-focusing. Improving web accessibility for this audience will improve access for everyone.
