LAEP to Host Tech Training Workshop

The Los Angeles Educational Partnership will host a week-long workshop aimed at showing educators how to integrate technology into science instruction in the classroom.

The Advanced Technology Training for Teachers will take place August 21-25 at Venice High School and is being presented in collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District. As part of the five-day workshop, teachers will learn how to use technology effectively when teaching science. In addition they will receive instruction on how to use the Internet, software and other technologies to conduct research and enrich instructional materials.

The science workshop is part of a series of Advanced Technology Workshops funded by a $250,000 grant from the Boeing Company. The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation and the California Postsecondary Education Commission also provided funding.

The format for the training will be based on the successful "LA Access" Internet research and curriculum development training piloted by LAEP in 1998. Through LA Access, teachers in Los Angeles were given the opportunity to develop curricula using state-of-the-art technology to strengthen both teaching and student research.

Teachers will learn how to use existing online curriculum and will develop technology-rich Web-based classroom activities that are aligned with state content standards. In addition, teachers will use the Internet to facilitate discussion and exchange ideas with other teachers, specialists and experts in their disciplines on how to implement lessons in the classroom and how to adapt lessons found online.

The Boeing grant also funded an Advanced Technology Training Workshop for math instruction in June and follow-up sessions in the fall.

LAEP has pioneered the effort to bring technology into the classrooms, schools and communities of Los Angeles. Beginning in 1994, LAEP's initiatives have provided affordable access to the Internet for educators, placed curriculum materials online, and taught educators how to plan and use technology in the classroom.

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