What Makes TechPOINT Professional Development Different?
Fully Customizable: Learning Point Associates will work with your school or district to help you discern your needs and objectives and design a professional development program to meet your professional development goals, budget, and timeline.
Immersion Program: TechPOINT Professional Development not only presents teachers with relevant and timely instruction in research-based pedagogy and basic technology skills, it also immerses teachers in an electronic teaching environment so that they actually experience what technology-infused instruction looks and feels like in real life. Using a face—to—face and online hybrid course design, we preach, we practice, and we practice what we preach so that teachers get the exposure and experience they need to become comfortable and competent with technology-based instruction.
Standards-Based: TechPOINT Professional Development is aligned to the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) standards for Staff Development and to the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers(NETS•T) to ensure a high-quality learning experience designed to improve student achievement.
What makes TechPOINT Professional Development Better?
Supportive: Teachers get the benefit of in-depth, face—to—face instruction followed by extended opportunities to explore and practice using educational technology while being fully supported by both a facilitator and a peer mentor. Teachers are not left alone in cyberspace to figure it out for themselves.
Relevant: Technology integration is useful only if it helps teachers teach better. TechPOINT Professional Development draws from a solid scientific research base, best–practice examples, and teachers' own experiences and expertise in the content areas to empower teachers to make technology-integration decisions that both make sense and make a difference.
