Making Learning Personal & Relevant: A Very Different Preparation, Toward the Goal of Very Different Schools

The Computer Endorsement Cohort (CEC) is designed to prepare teachers at all grade levels to use the knowledge and skills of pedagogy and technology to enhance teaching and learning. It is grounded on the premise that in order to change the way teachers’ teach, they must experience innovative ways to learn as part of their professional preparation.

The program is highly personalized, heavily field-based, and intended to provide a supportive community through which pre-service teachers can become skillful in integrating technology to support learning and teaching. Students achieve a computer endorsement not by accumulating credits and grades, but by collecting evidence that they, indeed, can teach in the 23 ways described in CEC’s Program Expectations.

The program centers on an ongoing Seminar of 15 students who represent all stages of preparation from beginners to student teachers. The Seminar is led by one professor who guides students’ personalized programs and functions as the advisor and supervisor of student’s fieldwork until they achieve their computer endorsement.

Click here to read about the Guiding Principles or the Components of the Program


Contact:
Sasha Barab, Program Director
2232 School of Education, Indiana University
Bloomington In, 47405
(812) 856-8462, Internet: sbarab@indiana.edu