Sam Stewart

1. By
Sam Stewart, Ed.D
International Christian Community for Teacher Education
March 25, 2012

2. Abilene Christian University's Teacher Education
Program was selected as the exemplary program in the
state of Texas for teaching teacher candidates how to
incorporate technology into instruction.
http://www.powerontexas.com/?page_id=2580

3. Secondary Program Components
1. A study of research-based instructional practices.
2. Exploring new and innovative models for delivering
instruction, i.e., Project-Based Learning and Standards-Based
Learning.
3. Planning for instruction that incorporates technology and
higher order thinking skills.
4. Practice teaching lessons where peers and instructors provide
feedback for improvement and then re-teaching the lesson a
second time.
5. Multiple opportunities for reflection the teacher candidate
learning.

4. Research-Based Instructional Practices
1. Comparing and Contrasting
2. Summarizing and Notetaking
3. Differentiating Instruction
4. Using Homework Effectively
5. Non-linguistic Representations
6. Cooperative Learning
7. Hypothesizing
8. Questions and Advance Organizers

5. Instructional Planning
1. Teacher candidates evaluate their lessons with the HEAT
scale. (http://loticonnection.cachefly.net/global_documents/HEAT_Framework_Poster.pdf)
2. Teacher candidates evaluate the level of technology of the
lesson (http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS-S_Standards.sflb.ashx)

6. Project-Based Learning
1. Teacher candidates visit a project-based high school.
2. Teacher candidates collaboratively plan a project-
based lesson using the tools available at
http://www.bie.org.
3. Teacher candidates present there project to the class
and receive feedback from peers and instructors.
4. Teacher candidate revise their project for final
submission and assessment.

7. Media-Lesson
1. Teacher candidates prepare and present a lesson that
incorporates technology in some type of meaningful way.
(This means that the students participating in the lesson will
have to engage with the technology.)
2. Teacher candidates present their lesson to the class and
instructors and receive feedback on their lesson.
3. Based on the feedback, teacher candidates reteach their
lessons which are also critiqued and scored.