Teaching Teleapprenticeship Project Objectives

Our objectives are to:

• examine the ways in which the Teaching Teleapprenticeship Project (TTa) provides a diverse set of real instructional experiences, not just invented examples, for learning science and mathematics content and instructional methods;

• study the kinds of skills which students will need to operate effectively as teachers in such interactions on educational networks in the future;

• examine the ways in which TTa can provide additional support for student teachers, as mediators between the post-secondary and the K-12 settings;

• investigate the roles for practicing science and mathematics teachers in TTa, as they integrate the interactions into their teaching and continue their own education;

• explore ways to integrate content area experts, both from higher education and from outside the educational system, into this model;

• examine the impact of state-of-the-art communication tools and resource servers on the TTa interactions; and

• explore ways to involve student teachers as mediators of network-learning frameworks and develop and support the diverse set of distributed mediators necessary for a large scale use of networks for learning.

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