Just
how well prepared is the next crop of new K-12 teachers to deploy digital
learning materials and online resources in the classroom? Project Tomorrow aims
to find out by asking education majors and their professors.
Project
Tomorrow, a nonprofit education advocacy group, conducts the annual Speak Up
survey of K-12 students, teachers, and parents to track how new technologies
and new media are being used in schools and at home. Again this year, the Speak
Up research will include a separate survey for students and faculty in
undergraduate and graduate teacher preparation programs.
Through
the survey, Project Tomorrow hopes to discover how student-teachers are being
trained to use tech tools and how they anticipate such tools will help their
productivity and improve student achievement. As this is the fifth year for the
Speak Up for Higher Education survey, it should yield some comparative data to
show if and how teacher preparation is evolving. The survey is now open until
May 16.
Results
from the survey will be released in a report to Congress next fall. Colleges
and universities that promote the survey to their School of Education will
receive a separate report with findings about their own students and faculty.
