ERIC Number: EJ895465
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1449-5554
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Developing Leadership Potential for Technology Integration: Perspectives of Three Beginning Teachers
Gao, Ping; Wong, Angela F. L.; Choy, Doris; Wu, Jing
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, v26 n5 p643-658 2010
This paper reports one major finding from a large two-year, mixed-methods study that investigated the process of beginning teachers' learning to teach with information and communication technology (ICT). Among the ten participants involved in the qualitative portion of the study, three stood out from the rest in their effort to use ICT in student-centred teaching approaches and translating their constructivist orientation learned from the university into classroom practice. They began to develop leadership potential to influence their university peers and their cooperating teachers during their ten-week period of student teaching (Gao, Choy, Wong & Wu, 2009). During their first year of teaching, they continued to develop their leadership potential for technology integration by teaching with their "technology savvy" strengths, leading their colleagues in school-wide technology initiatives, and supporting other beginning teachers. This study suggests that beginning teachers can learn to teach with ICT and lead in technology integration at the beginning stage of teacher development. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Constructivism (Learning), Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Cooperating Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Interviews, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Role, Instructional Leadership, Grounded Theory, Males, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Ascilite Secretariat, P.O. Box 44, Figtree, NSW, Australia. Tel: +61-8-9367-1133; e-mail: info@ascilite.org.au; Web site: http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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