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Technology and Beyond: Teachers Learning through Project-Based Partnerships
Monday, November 15th, 2004
Abstract: Project-Based Teacher Partnerships is a model for teacher professional development to help teachers doing technology-supported project-based learning in the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project. Experienced teachers team with a small number of less-experienced teachers to form a partnership. The partnership plans a project that the teachers will execute together in all the partners’ classrooms. The partnership submits a project proposal to Challenge 2000, and approved proposals are eligible for equipment and software grants and stipends. Evaluation data shows the model is effective in building technology, pedagogy, and leadership skills and collaboration practices that support teacher learning.
The Partnerships model is significant in its combination of teacher collaboration with projectbased learning. Teachers’ learning was structured by a classroom project they designed and then did with their students, rather than being structured around a piece of technology. This lent a sense of focus and vividness to learning technology.