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May 16, 2007, 01:04 PM ET
Teaching Teachers to Teach
A forum held today in Washington about how to prepare high-school students for college and the global job market touched on the use of technology to improve both the way students learn and the way teachers teach.
Susan Patrick, president and chief executive of the North American Council for Online Learning, was one of the panelists at the event, held by Blackboard Inc. She said training teachers to teach online not only improved their teaching methods in a virtual classroom, but also in the traditional lecture hall. It helps teachers break out of old habits and gets them to rethink their approach to teaching children, she said, not just by using Web tools but often by reorganizing the structure of the course.
Ms. Patrick and the other panelists said schools of education needed to put more emphasis on teaching future grade-school teachers about technology tools. "Technology personalizes instruction for every kid," she said. --Dan Carnevale
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