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Developing a Tech Plan for an Early Childhood Center

Does anyone have an example of an Early Childhood Technology Plan?

After reading the article listed below, " A Comprehensive Approach to Technology Training for Early Educators", and really enjoying it, wanted to learn more about that project. Found another article, "Testing the Whole Teacher Approach to Professional Development: A Study of Enhancing Early Childhood Teachers’ Technology Proficiency", available for free online, which describes, in the abstract "the whole teacher development approach is proposed as an organizing framework. The approach is distinguished by its simultaneous focus on teacher attitudes, skills and knowledge, and practices." There are many other interesting ideas in these articles, and two other articles about this collaboration between the Head Start program in the Early Childhood Department of the Chicago Public Schools and Erikson Institute, a Graduate School in Child Development, that might inform the development of a technology plan for early educators.

Resources A Comprehensive Approach to Technology Training for Early Childhood Teachers by Jie-Qi Chen; Charles Chang http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g784760008

Testing the Whole Teacher Approach to Professional Development: A Study of Enhancing Early Childhood Teachers’ Technology Proficiency http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v8n1/chen.html by Jie-Qi Chen & Charles Chang, Erikson Institute