** No - it is a school choice to use staff for this (and other)
purposes - we do have 1 elementary school (of 15) that has
chosen to pay for a full time lab teaching assistant and 1
school that has chosen to relieve a teacher of 1/5 of their
regular duties (PE in this case) to assist teachers. In
addition, two schools are paying teachers on professional leave
a small consultant fee to help teachers with technology.
>2. If your district does not fit the above categories, do you have a
> teacher given release time to help trouble shoot technology and work with
> other teachers?
** No one is "given" release time (or anything else) in my
district...a school must choose to use their allocations for
this purpose
> 3. Does you district provide a district level person that travels from
> school to school to handle technology instruction?
** My district has about 11,000 kids, 700 teachers and 23 school
sites...we have 3 Instructional Technology Specialists that
each work with 6 or 7 schools.
> 4. If you do not fit the above, what happens in your school?
> 5. How many students in your elementary school?
** Our elementary schools range from 170 to 640 students per.
--- Becky Fisher Coordinator of Instructional Technology Albemarle County Public Schools fisher@pen.k12.va.us