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Technology and Teacher Education
 
The Multimedia Academy: Technology Applications in a Professional Development School
 
a joint partnership with Chula Vista Elementary School District and San Diego State University
 
Phyllis Robershaw orients her group of student teachers at San Diego State University with these words, "Get in shape and be focused. You’re about to enter the most exciting year of your career as a student. This year will transform you from learner to practitioner. Welcome to Clear View Professional Development School, a joint partnership with the Chula Vista Elementary School District and San Diego State University."

The student teachers begin their journey by participating in a weekly Multimedia Academy on the Clear View campus. This intense introduction to multimedia in education is taught by the staff at Clear View and former student teachers. A variety of media is introduced, such as scanners, laser disks, internet, music CD’s, graphics and clip art, digital cameras, and various types of video input. The group will develop a presentation to "show off" on the last day. Besides student teachers, classroom teachers and administrators also enroll in the Academy, thus providing student teachers contact with the scope and spectrum of education, from preservice to new to veteran staff.

Once student teachers are placed in their classrooms, they conduct a group multimedia project with students at Clear View. By doing this, they get a realistic view of how their knowledge can guide students to use technology as a learning tool. Both students and student teachers benefit from this project; the former from small group guidance, the latter from actually practicing the use of technology tools embedded in a unit of study.

San Diego State University reaches out to embrace the extended school community at the Clear View site by involving its professors, graduate students, and the actual facility to connect the university to elementary classrooms. In a partnership with Cox Communication, two fiber-optic connections were established from the Clear View campus to the history department and into the electron microscope at San Diego State University. Students in grades 4-6 at Clear View engage in year-long inquiry with university personnel as part of a regular classroom unit of study. Clear View provides a distinct example of a professional development school using technology to expand the learning of students and teachers alike.

To learn more about this program, visit the College of Education at San Diego State University.
 
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