{"id":70780,"date":"2003-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professor-awarded-microsoft-grant\/"},"modified":"2003-01-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-31T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professor-awarded-microsoft-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2003\/01\/uri-professor-awarded-microsoft-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 professor awarded Microsoft grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMedia Contact: Dave Lavallee 874-2116
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\nto bolster teacher education,
\nstudent performance in West Warwick
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\nKINGSTON, R.I. — January 31, 2003 — A 溏心vlog免费B站 education professor has been awarded an AACTE\/Microsoft Innovative Teachers grant that will strengthen a partnership between the University and the West Warwick School Department.
\n \tThe grant, awarded by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and Microsoft to 溏心vlog免费B站 Assistant Professor of Education Peter Adamy, is designed to improve the experience of 溏心vlog免费B站 student-teachers, assist their cooperating teachers, and strengthen the curriculum across the school system. <\/p>\n

\tAdamy said the grant provides West Warwick and 溏心vlog免费B站 with Microsoft software packages that will link student-teachers, cooperating teachers, school administrators and 溏心vlog免费B站 professors in the curriculum development process. It will allow participants to develop interactive, computer-oriented lesson plans, electronic portfolios for student-teachers, evaluation tools for local students and a multi-faceted communications network that will link all of the groups. “The teachers and student teachers will use the software to enhance curriculum development and learning in all areas. Our hope is that they will then turn around and use these ideas with their students.” <\/p>\n

Because West Warwick has put an emphasis on strengthening literacy and math skills, all participants will explore ways to integrate reading, writing and math across the curriculum, as well as methods for using computers and accompanying software to assess student learning.
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\n“What we are really talking about is creating innovative practices for the classroom and then implementing them through the cooperating and student-teachers,” said Jim Monti, West Warwick\u2019s technology coordinator and standards coach for professional development. “Our professional development program is designed to get all groups in the partnership to see themselves as scientists, mathematicians and writers. We want our students to see themselves this way; we want them to go through the struggles and triumphs that professional writers experience.” <\/p>\n

Adamy\u2019s work is another effort by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s School of Education to create formal partnerships with districts to improve teaching and learning. <\/p>\n

West Warwick has been a focus because 溏心vlog免费B站 places a high number of student-teachers there. This academic year alone, 溏心vlog免费B站 has placed 12 student-teachers in the school department that serves 3,800 students. <\/p>\n

“The grant is designed to support innovation in teacher education,” Adamy said. “While working in West Warwick, we\u2019ve all been looking to enhance our students\u2019 experiences while they are student-teaching. But we also want to change the way we work with cooperating teachers and address the issue of curriculum enhancement.” <\/p>\n

Among the early steps in the process are: creating an environment in which West Warwick students use current computer technology; provide student-teachers with the opportunity to work in elementary and secondary schools that are making extensive use of computers and to develop a cooperative professional development program that will ensure that cooperating teachers and student-teachers receive ongoing training in methods of integrating technology into meaningful instruction and assessment in the classroom. <\/p>\n

“This program also changes the way we work with cooperating teachers,” Adamy said. “The school of education has ramped up its expectations of cooperating teachers in recent years, and so they will also go through two phases of professional development. We\u2019ve also increased the stipend for working with 溏心vlog免费B站 students.” <\/p>\n

Adamy is quick to point out that technology on its own is not the answer to school improvement, but when used in concert with standards-based curriculum change, it can bolster school performance and teacher training simultaneously. <\/p>\n

“Most of our cooperating teachers know how to use technology; we are just showing them how to use it more effectively in curriculum development. We want them to receive the training to provide exemplary models of technology integration for our 溏心vlog免费B站 students.” <\/p>\n

For Further Information: Peter Adamy 874-7036\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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