Tech Toolkit for "No Child Left Behind"

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Walter Minkel -- School Library Journal, 06/01/2003

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The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), a national professional organization, and the U.S. Department of Education have joined together to create a new online aid, the National Leadership Institute Toolkit: States Helping States Implement No Child Left Behind. The kit, which was launched April 9, is designed to help educators meet the technology-literacy requirements of President Bush's education plan.

Because No Child Left Behind requires students to be technologically literate by the eighth grade, and obliges states to define a technologically "qualified teacher," the new tech kit explains how to assess teacher skills and provide teachers with effective professional development sessions. It includes valuable advice on assessing students' technological readiness, best practices for teaching those skills, and recommendations for designing state research studies that meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind. It also considers the role of equal access to technology across all socioeconomic groups of students. SETDA also offers recommendations for complying with the Education Department for the National Education Technology Plan, which is expected to be released in January 2004. To view the toolkit, visit www.setda.org/nli2002/CD. The document may also be downloaded in PDF format.