NECC: Seeding the Grass Roots: Preparing and Supporting Technology Mentors
This session was the story of a technology mentor program in two Pennsylvania school districts: Lower Merion and Manheim Township. The goals of their programs are right in line with what good technology professional development aims to do:
*To develop collaborative, professional relationships around the use of technology in teaching and learning
*To provide a distributed learning model to help protégés grow measurably in technology integration through close, personal, collaborative mentoring relationships between a mentor and 2 to 3 colleagues each year
*To measurably advance mentors in technology integration
*To develop technology staff development leadership at the school and district level
The material that they presented was very similar to the program that we tried to work with the last few years. Although the means was different (during school as opposed to after school), the goals are the same. This will be something to look into for the future. How can we pursue a technology mentor model that will work in East Penn?
More specific details can be found in their presentation.