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Rethinking Summer School as an Opportunity for Teacher Professional Development
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, , , Teachers College, Columbia University, United States

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Austin, Texas, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-92-1 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA

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This paper explores a professional development initiative for teachers situated within the context of an elementary summer school program. The program supported a “learning lab” environment, designed to build teachers’ understanding and application of meaningful technologies in the classroom. The lab environment provided an intensive experience for teachers, supported by administrators, and free from the demands of the traditional classroom. Overall, the structured, hands-on approach of the professional development within the context of the learning lab environment proved to be highly successful in terms of shifting the understanding and practice of participants.

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Mineo, C., Meier, E. & Sanchez, R. (2012). Rethinking Summer School as an Opportunity for Teacher Professional Development. In P. Resta (Ed.), Proceedings of SITE 2012--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 3934-3936). Austin, Texas, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 19, 2024 from .

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