The doctoral program in educational technology at Iowa State University is one example of this type of specialized program. ... One area of that report dealt with teacher education. ... Even with the growing recognition of the need for work on ITTE, it is interesting to note that the 1200-page Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (Jonassen, 1996) does not have a chapter on technology and teacher education, and the term teacher education does not appear in the index of the book. ... Paradigms or "world views" are above the concerns of data types. Although empiric...

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Once the child is identified and referred to the Reading Recovery Program, the teacher spends the first ten sessions trying to determine what knowledge about reading and print a child already has (This is done through reading inventory sheets such as those included in this paper). ... In each session, the child reads several books, beginning with one that is already familiar. ... These books also offer the child a chance to gain experience in fluent reading; (2) Independent reading of the previous days book from which the teachers does a running record or miscue analysis of the student'...

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The learning competencies in Measurement includes describes what it means to measure; describes the development of measurement from the primitive to the present international system of units; estimates or approximates the measures of quantities particularly length, weight/mass, volume, time, angle and temperature; uses appropriate instruments to measure quantities such as length, weight/mass, volume, time, angle and temperature; converts measurements from one unit to another for each type of measurement including the English system; and solves problems involving measurements such as perimeter,...

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