PT3 @ SBU

Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology

At St. Bonaventure University, we are committed to prepare tomorrow's teachers to use technology. We are committed to ensuring that as preservice teachers, all of our students develop the skills and the dispositions required for technology-using educators. We are committed to providing them with opportunities to learn about how technology can mediate learning, how it can enhance their own work, and how it can make learning environments for children more robust.

The School of Education at St. Bonaventure University was awarded a PT³ grant in September 1999 to be used over three years to improve the preparation of pre-service teachers. This grant was awarded under the U.S. Department of Education’s program Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology.

At SBU, the overarching goal of our PT³ project is to help our students become competent, confident technology-using educators. We are:

first and foremost, helping our preservice teachers learn to use a variety of technologies and to implement them in appropriate ways in their field work and student teaching

working with our university faculty in the integration of technologies into courses and assignments,

establishing resource centers on campus for learning about and using educational software and tools,

working with our partner schools to increase and improve the infusion of a variety of technologies in their educational programs, and

ensuring that our SBU students experience learning through and with technology and that they begin to use technology in their pre-service teaching experiences.

We believe that this project will have a positive effect on the students in our partner schools as our student tutors, interns and student teachers employ more technologies in their teaching. We continue to work with school partners from

	Coudersport, PA, Elementary School
	Cuba Elementary School, Cuba, NY
	East View, Olean, NY, Elementary School
	Boardmanville, Olean, NY, Elementary School
	North Hill, Olean, NY, Elementary School
	Olean Middle School, Olean, NY
	Olean High School, Olean, NY
	Wellsville, NY, Elementary School
	Randolph, NY, Elementary School

The project was directed by Dr. Nancy Casey, Dr. Patrick Casey & Dr. Peggy Burke, faculty in the SBU School of Education.

For more information call:

	Dr. Nancy Casey - (716) 375-2141
	Dr. Patrick Casey - (716) 375-2177
	Ms. Ashley Hanks- Graduate Assistant– (716) 375-2084
	Ms. Tonya Beardsley - Graduate Assistant– (716) 375-2084

This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teacher's to Use Technology Program. St. Bonaventure University and it's PT3 partners received a $1.16 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which covers 50% of the project's costs. The remaining costs of the grant activities are provided by the partners through matching funds.

These Web pages do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education or imply endorsement by the Federal Government.

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