Computer-using teachers in a new decade

✍ Scribed by Margaret L. Niess

• Book ID: 104305236
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Weight: 622 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-9287
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-9287(09)90002-4

✦ Synopsis

Has the impact of computer technology in education altered the education teachers need in order to be computerusing teachers? Are teachers being prepared for the decade of the '90s using the technology of the '80s to meet the goals/needs of the '80s? The Northwest Council for Computer Education and Oregon State University funded a project to develop guideline competencies for teacher preparation programs. Separate sets of competencies were developed for elementary, middle school and high school teachers, for elementary, middle school and high school computer teachers and for elementary, middle school and high school curriculum coordinators. A comparison of these competencies with a similar set developed in 1983 suggests recommendations for changes in preservice and inservice teacher preparation programs. More importantly, the competencies call for major revisions in the curriculum and for teachers who can develop and teach the revised curriculum utilizing computer technology.