Technology Combined with Good Teaching Leads to Success | Edutopia - 9 views
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Of those classrooms employing the boards and using the voting technology, there was an immediate increase of 17 percent in scores.
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He also found that if a teacher had been given 20-30 months to hone his or her skills, there was an average 20 percentile gain.
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Robert Marzano
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voter-response technology
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when a teacher was trained to use the technology, had used it for two years, and did so 75 percent of the time. That profile shows a whopping 29 percentile gain in scores.
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you clearly "can't take the human being out of teaching."
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To get the most out of the interactive whiteboard, a school district can't just give it to a teacher, and can't just give it to any teacher. The district has to train that teacher. And Marzano was quick to point out that weaker teachers require professional development in the use of both interactive whiteboards and effective teaching.