Apple for the Teacher
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Author_Melissa Evans-Andris
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Leadership
Leadership in Educational Technology
Primary/Elementary Education
PrimaryElementary Education
Staff Development/Professional Development in Education
Staff DevelopmentProfessional Development in Education
Product details
- ISBN 9780803963481
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 1996
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Take a look at the use of computers in classrooms from the teacher′s perspective. Explore the best (and worst) ways to use computers in the classroom. Evans-Andris gives you models of the three basic computer-use styles teachers adopt. She helps you identify the ways your teachers use computers in their classrooms and shows how to support their best efforts to incorporate computers into teaching and learning. Find out how you can encourage teachers to use this new tool to enhance their teaching abilities, help augment their knowledge base, and boost their careers. Evans-Andris offers a thorough, systematic examination of how teachers react--and how teaching and learning change--when computers come into the classroom. She recommends strategies to help you: * Motivate your teachers to incorporate technology into their curriculum * Improve students′ learning and performance * Shift responsibilities to computer coordinators * Support your teachers′ efforts to use computers creatively and constructively * Guide your staff through the tricky changes that result from bringing in technology You′ll learn how to focus teachers′ efforts on integrating technology into their classes, manage your computer coordinator, and get everyone to work toward your shared goal of making technology count. Let the crucial information in this book help you lead your staff and students into the 21st century of learning.
Melissa Evans-Andris is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Her interests include the sociology of education, work and occupations, and qualitative research methodologies particularly as they relate to schools and teaching. Her research focuses on school reform, sustainability of school improvement, and teacher quality. She authored a book in 1996 entitled An Apple for the Teacher: Computers and Work in Elementary Schools. Most recently she directed two research efforts, including a federal study entitled “Comprehensive School Reform, Educational Dynamics, and Achievement in Kentucky Middle Schools” and a state project entitled “A Research Study of the Kentucky Teacher Internship Program Pilot Project” that tracked the experiences of new teacher-interns during their first three years on the job. She is active in local and statewide discussion forums related to improvement in Kentucky schools. She received her PhD in sociology at Indiana University in 1991.
