This week I am attending and presenting a brief research paper/presentation at the annual SITE (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education) conference.
Amid the special interest groups and tracks at the conference where those dedicated to teacher education programs. I fit a few of the presentations into my schedule and I found some of the discussion has been centered on the issues discussed with this group.
Certainly much of the focus of those at SITE has been focused on effective ways to integrate technology, but throughout the sessions has been a call to better connect the practice of in-service teachers, pre-service teachers, and practice research.
Shared at one presentation was a report produced by numerous representatives from a variety of national groups including NCATE, ISTE, AACTE, and AERA (among others). I’ve skimmed through the report that was produced and thought it was worthy of sharing with this group. Lots of overlap with the NCATE document shared by Faye.
If you wanted to follow the going-ons of SITE you can follow the conversations on Twitter using the hashtag #site2011. Points of interest that I thought were relevant to this group would be the continued work being done on TPACK and the number of districts pumping money into interactive whiteboards (choose your own flavor) with not much planning of what to do with them once they are installed. Lots of folks using them as high-tech chalk boards.
