Chapter 20: The Technology Leadership Cadre: An Effective Model of Professional Development in Technology for Multiple Constituencies

The Technology Leadership Cadre (TLC) is the core of a professional development model that reaches students preparing to be teachers, university faculty who teach them, and practicing teachers in partner schools. Members of the TLC are pre-service teachers paid to plan and lead instructional technology workshops and to provide on site, on demand support for other pre-service teachers, for faculty, and for teachers and students in partnership schools. They present workshops directly to students, focusing on the technology tools needed to create web-based electronic portfolios of high quality. Their own professional development includes both learning to use instructional technology and learning to be leaders, specifically instructional leaders in educational technology. When they become teachers, they carry into their work exceptional skills in technology to use in their teaching, and also the dispositions and skills needed to be technology leaders in their schools and districts.