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Aligning Technology Practices in the Schools and the University efforts between the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, and local school divisions to support one another in technology initiatives.

The Curry School of Education, Albemarle County Public Schools, and Charlottesville Public Schools have been collaborating on several projects designed to support one another and to align the technology efforts of each partner. The Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) project is developing appropriate in-service educational technology standards based on the premise that appropriate uses of technologies differ by content area and grade level. For example, the Geometer’s Sketchpad is an appropriate tool for a tenth-grade geometry teacher, but Kid Pix may be more appropriate for a kindergarten teacher. Teams of local teachers and faculty from different grade levels and content areas are jointly developing standards for in-service education. The Curry School, in turn, will make use of this information to identify content appropriate for integration in Curry School preservice courses.

In a related collaborative effort, Aileen Nonis, director of the Technology Infusion Project (TIP) and a graduate student in the Curry School, works with Becky Fisher, the Albemarle Schools technology coordinator, to pair preservice teachers with local classroom teachers. The preservice teachers are enrolled in an educational technology course that requires them to implement technology practices in real classrooms. Each team spends a semester identifying ways to appropriately integrate educational technologies into the specific classroom practices and curriculum of a participating teacher. The TIP program is jointly funded by the Curry School and the Albemarle Schools as an act of conscious symbiosis signaling that both partners benefit equally. The school division benefits through more effective technology integration in local classrooms, while the Curry School benefits because the program helps ensure that the technological practices observed by preservice teachers will be state of the art.

Learn more about information technology programs at the Curry School of Education.
 
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