techleadership

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other types of staff development, including modeling, co-teaching, conferencing, finding resources, and mentoring her teachers.

She focused her time on individual teachers and their needs using Vygotsky's theory of the Zone of Proximal Development and scaffolding.

collaborate with other teachers if they want to choose the same goal

Ultimately I focused on the underlying learning objectives that I wanted, complete with students, and found digital tools to complement or enhance those skills.

The key in all of this is good instructional design along with a consistent vision and culture built by school administration.

An administrator's biggest mistake is to make technology seem like a mandated item

Professional development should be job-embedded, linking technology usage to specific content standards and learners in teachers' classrooms, and should also provide technical support.

Successful schoolwide technology integration ultimately requires a schoolwide cultural shift

In explaining how people become digitally literate, breadth of use, experience, gender, and education are more important than generation

Students use the class webpage to connect to the classroom from home.

Maintaining contact between classrooms and homes is an important goal but can be difficult to achieve.