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Developing Teacher Excellence

The Teaching & Learning Interchange or TLI supported math and science teachers to become "highly qualified" in the art of teaching subject matter to a diverse student population, to acquire subject matter competency, and to appropriately use technology and digital media in support of teaching and learning.  The project received $1.5 million in funding through a U.S. Department of Education Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant from 2001-2005. Through its partnership with state-supported teacher mentoring programs, the TLI supported thousands of California pre-intern and intern teachers. 

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Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology
2001-2005

WIDENING THE PATHWAY TO A TEACHING CREDENTIAL

The Teaching and Learning Interchange developed a research-informed model for supporting pre-credential classroom teachers to acquire both subject matter competence and knowledge of teaching pedagogy and classroom management. The interchange content is aligned with the California’s K-12 student academic content and teacher performance standards that were in effect during the development period from 2002-2005.

COLLABORATIONS

The TLI partnered with 13 County Offices of Education and K-12 School Districts, the University of San Francisco, CSU Monterey, WestEd, the Exploratorium Teacher Development Center and the California County Superintendents Education Services Association (CCSESA) to use web-based technologies and video streaming as the medium for distributing content-based instruction, inquiry into effective classroom practice through case study, and to facilitate access to new teacher mentoring. These technologies supported the TLI to provide:

  • Subject-matter competency tutoring and test preparation for the California Subject Examinations for Teachers
  • Video case investigations into classroom practice in the teaching of subject matter
  • Resources to support the infusion of technology into classroom practice
  • support for pre-interns, intern and new teachers to acquire key technology skills to meet the CA Technology Standards for Teachers and the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards.

OUTCOMES

The over-arching goals of the TLI project was to make the technology tools transparent while supporting new teachers to acquire the essential skills necessary for effective teaching; to provide a mechanism to distribute/share learning among participants, mentor teachers and experts and to provide means for participants to collaborate and meet without the barriers of time and place.

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE TLI?

Please use the Contact Us page. 
Funding of the TLI ended in 2005 but the Video Cases are still active.   This site represents the events prior to the close of U.S. Department of Education funding.

© 2002, 2005, 2013, 2015 Pamela A. Redmond, Ed.D. and CCSESA

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A U.S. Department of Education Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Grant funded this project.