Acadia University Program - Overview.

Two one-week professional development programs will be held at Acadia in the summer of 2001 and 2002. Program weeks for 2001 will be July 30-August 3 and August 13-17.

During each of the two weeks, ten teams of four (two teachers and two students from a school) will be selected from across Canada, based on the submission of a project idea in any area of study.

Teams will be selected based on their submission of a project idea that uses some aspect of technology to address an instructional challenge or accomplish a learning objective. This project will provide a focus for the team's work at the training week. Please describe for us the challenge or objective that your team would like to address and the project idea and where it fits in your curriculum.

Instructional challenges or learning objectives can be general or specific and projects may incorporate several important objectives, for example, the project could aim to:

• increase student involvement with... community, school leadership, athletics
• teach students difficult concepts of... science, language, music
• provide increased opportunities for study of materials or assessment of student learning
• connect students with... experts in the business community, students from other countries, government agencies

Participants of the Clarica Scholar's Program at Acadia will receive:

• IBM Laptop for each participant with dorm room internet connections.
• One-on-one instruction from Acadia Teaching Assistants (ATA). Instruction in state of the art multimedia classrooms and digital video and recording labs.
• Access to online resources and an interactive teaching webpage.
• On-going support from AITT Staff throughout the school year.

 

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