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Technology and Teacher Education
 
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Texas’ School-Based Teacher Education Technology Initiative.
 
Professor Howard Jones communicates from his office or home computer with students who are working in three area elementary schools as part of the University of Houston’s field-based teacher education program. Students forward lesson plans and assignments for review, share their concerns, and ask for advice or personal time to talk face to face or by phone. Jones and his colleagues at the University of Houston are in e-mail contact with their students, who work in more than 30 area elementary and secondary schools. Other colleagues at Texas Southern University, the University of St. Thomas and Houston Baptist University - all members, with the University of Houston, of the Houston Consortium of Urban Centers for Professional Development and Technology - similarly communicate with their students, either from the schools in which students are working or from wherever the students can access a computer.

The Houston Consortium is among many beneficiaries of the Texas Legislature’s investment of more than $25 million over the past several years to encourage teacher education institutions to make their preparation programs more field-based and technology-intensive. Grants are made to teacher education institutions so they can develop their own technology capacities and the technology capabilities of area elementary and secondary schools, and to support the offering of methodology courses on-site in those schools. Faculty and students work together in technology-enriched school environments.

Preliminary data indicate that pupils in these schools show increased achievement on statewide tests in mathematics, reading, and writing - and that 43% of the experienced teachers in these schools report changing their teaching practices because of involvement in the program.

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