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by The Milken Exchange and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

2/23/99 | The face of the American classroom is changing. There is rapid turnover in the teacher workforce and an increase in the total number of students despite a strong movement toward decreasing average class size. These challenges will require an estimated need for 2.2 million new teachers in the next decade.

With national and statewide budgetary output for education technology increasing, how are teacher training institutions (including colleges of education, graduate teachers’ colleges and undergraduate teaching programs) preparing new teachers to keep up with the technology explosion in the classroom? This study – commissioned by the Milken Exchange and conducted by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) – found that teacher preparation programs, while well-intentioned, are not providing the kind of training and exposure teachers need if they are to be proficient and comfortable integrating technology with their teaching.

This 57-page publication, released in early 1999, shares the results of a survey of teacher training institutions and their efforts to prepare today's teachers for the classrooms they will enter.