Also, Dr. Vermette will partner with the PGP team from Lisbon to address a major weakness of most preservice teacher preparation programs. When preservice teachers are placed for student teaching or other field experiences, too often they are placed with teachers who, themselves, are not good models of standards focused teaching strategies.  Often they are utilized as gophers rather than given tasks that enable them to grow professionally.

 Since the teachers on the Lisbon PGP team are all committed to standards focused/learner centered teaching strategies, Dr. Vermette feels his student teachers will increase their chances of being mentored by good teacher role models if they utilize the Lisbon PGP teachers. Therefore,  beginning second semester, 2001, four students from Niagara University will travel 350 miles to stay in Northern New York and complete their student teaching requirements. Dr. Vermette will travel to Northern New York at least twice to provide direct supervision and will utilize technology to communicate regularly with the student teachers. Models will emerge for improving  field experiences for student teachers, enhancing the value for mentor teachers, and affording urban universities (Niagara, for example) to provide rural experiences for their students.

D.  SUNY, Potsdam
 For the third consecutive year, Dr. Timothy Schwob of SUNY Potsdam will provide formative and summative valuations of the project. In the past two years, Dr. Schwob has visited more than 25 project teacher classrooms, and has participated in project planning sessions. His formative assessments have guided the planning stages of this project. Dr. Schwob's proposal for project evaluation, 2000-2001, is on pages 18-19-20.

6. Teacher Center support
 Teacher Center Director Linda Dunning of St. Lawrence Valley Teacher Learner Center,  her successor Gerry Peters, and Director Debbie Stout of the Adirondack Teacher Center,  as well as Director Mary Pobedinsky. of Jefferson-Lewis Teacher Center have been  active  participants on the project planning committee and facilitators at the summer conference training for PGP teachers and pilot teachers, and at the sessions held  throughout the year. Celeste Norman, recently hired as the new SLVTLC Director will   now serve on the planning committee, and as a facilitator, with Debbie Stout and Mary Pobedinsky. In coordination with Ms. Norman and the SLVTLC, we will identify teachers   who can model exemplary strategies and these teachers will be utilized as part of the tailored inter-active Internet courses for 60 project "roll-out" teachers.

7. Technology
 The technology advisory committee will consist of Jim Rudd, 4th grade teacher at Massena, and Randy Sanders, technology director for Clifton-Fine, who have been with this project since its inception, and they will be joined by private consultant Jerry Bartlett whose credentials includes extensive experience in both commercial and non - commercial website design and development. Areas of knowledge include but are not  limited to HTML, Javascripting, CGI-Scripting (in PERL Code), Unix Platform, SSI, and  Graphics Imaging.. All three were present for the full week of PGP and pilot teacher  training, July 31 - August 4), they have designed the web site self assessment process for the tailored Internet course, and they are designing the project web site so that it will be one of the most advanced in the country.

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