Our Work: Curriculum & Instruction
Technology
Technology is an increasingly important learning tool across the content areas. Whether you’re a novice or an expert, McREL offers you and your school the guidance and support you need to get the most out of your technology investment. Our educational technology workshops and professional development opportunities aim to make teachers and administrators comfortable with technology and help them use it in a way that maximizes the benefits for everyone.
Technology audits
The first step for many schools and districts is figuring out what technology they already have and what they are doing with it. Our consultants will audit your hardware, software, professional development, and use of technology through a review of documents, surveys, interviews, and focus groups. You’ll receive a detailed report that chronicles your current state of technology and make recommendations for moving forward.
Using technology to improve instruction
(see Leadership)
This academy provides instructional leaders practical, research-based guidance on the effective instructional practices and leadership skills needed to successfully integrate technology into teaching and learning.
Multimedia &
Student Learning
Learn how to integrate multimedia (e.g., video, Web, and other
technologies) into the learning process to engage your students and enhance
their learning.
Audience: Curriculum specialists, staff developers,
& teachers
Technology in the
Content Areas:
Elementary Mathematics
Using National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) process
standards, this workshop shows teachers how to integrate technology
into the elementary mathematics classroom with a variety of Web resources
and software.
Audience: Elementary
mathematics teachers
Technology &
Learning Styles
This workshop shows which
technology-infused activities
best support a variety of
learning styles in the classroom.
Audience: Teachers of all
grade levels
Technology in the Content Areas: Elementary Science
Learn how to integrate
technology into the elementary science classroom using the
scientific inquiry process
endorsed by the National
Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and a variety of hands-on
activities.
Audience: Elementary
science teachers
Technology in the Content Areas: Secondary Science
Use scientific inquiry to increase student engagement in biology,
physics, chemistry, and earth science. Learn how
to integrate Web resources,
software, digital microscopes, and scientific probes into this
NSTA-endorsed process.
Audience: Middle & high
school science teachers
Using Technology with
Classroom Instruction
that Works
Based on McREL’s newest
ASCD publication, this workshop shows teachers how to use technology to enhance the nine categories of effective instruction identified in the best-selling manual, Classroom Instruction that Works.
Audience: Administrators,
curriculum specialists, staff
developers, & teachers
Using Technology with
Teaching Writing in the
Content Areas
Explore effective ways to
integrate technology as your
students learn to test, evaluate, revisit and clarify ideas in
the writing process, as described in McREL’s 2005 ASCD
publication, Teaching Writing in the Content Areas.
Audience: Teachers
of grades 6–12 in
all content areas