Institute for Technology

Designed for K-12 teachers across the curriculum, ASSET’s Institute for Technology (IFT) prepares teachers to infuse technology throughout the curriculum at every grade level to ensure that all students develop the skills and understandings that will improve learning.

Through hands-on, research-based activities, IFT participants will learn to:

• Promote inquiry, project-based teaching, authentic learning and problem-based learning
• Model instructional strategies that engage the participants in activities that reflect the classroom setting of a constructivist learning environment supported by technology
• Promote sharing of ideas for applications of constructivist approaches in the classroom
• Encourage collaboration among participants
• Model a management strategy for organizing a classroom with technology
• Provide time for reflection in small groups and/or the whole group
• Elicit ideas for additional ways of using software applications
• Analyze and develop lesson plans and curriculum units in light of the characteristics of constructivist learning environments supported by technology