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The Technology Intern Project (TIP), offers one solution to help experienced teachers learn new technology and prospective teachers ground their technology skills with a pragmatic experience. The project represents a cooperative venture between the Burlington School and other local Vermont School communities and the University of Vermont Elementary Education Program. In its third year, this inexpensive model helps classroom teachers and their students use computer technology and provides an opportunity for university students to apply the skills they have learned in Computers in the Elementary Classroom, a required course for all first year students, to an actual classroom environment. UVM students use their knowledge of desktop publishing, telecommunications, databases, spreadsheets, graphs, educational software, internet, scanning, and hypermedia to help elementary students and teachers work on computer related products.

UVM interns register for one to two credits and spend 20 - 40 hours per semester working with a specific teacher and class. The classroom teacher and UVM intern decide upon a project that integrates technology in the teacher's curriculum. Assignments and products have included: class newspapers, story books, slide shows, internet searches, year books, spreadsheets and graphs, and multimedia presentations. Support is provided to interns both at UVM and in their classroom placement by UVM faculty and field placement teachers and supervisors.

 

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