Each year, more adult education teachers and students gain access to computers and the Internet. Yet there is a growing awareness that teachers need more help to effectively integrate technology into their teaching practice.

Our technology workshops for adult education teachers begin with the teachers, not the technology. We offer participants the opportunity to discover technological tools and resources that address their students' specific learning goals, and to share those tools with their peers through facilitated discussions and group activities.

Our sessions raise participants' technological confidence by building on their teaching strengths. We provide time for them to practice skills, develop questions, and learn how to take a more active role in decision-making about technology products and practices. This approach has proven as useful to teachers new to computers as it has for more experienced "techies."

Using the Internet

Our special area of expertise is helping teachers use the Internet more effectively with their students. The introduction of the Internet into an adult education classroom provides teachers with a dizzying array of resource materials and activities. Our workshops show teachers how to find appropriate resources, evaluate them, and integrate them into their lessons.

Customized Workshop Options

We can design a training to meet the needs of a single program or an entire state. We can also work with you to develop anything from a 2-4 hour workshop for teachers to a year-long, multiple session train-the-trainer program.

Although we focus on the Internet, our approach can support the adoption of any technology. Popular training themes include:

• Using the Internet in Instruction

  We are able to work with teachers with different levels of Internet experience. We can help beginners learn how to effectively find and evaluate materials and activities on the Web; show more experienced teachers how to write lesson plans that effectively incorporate these materials; and work with tech-savvy teachers on fully integrating the Internet into a classroom project.

• Web-Publishing

  Our Web page design workshops place this topic in the context of adult education practice. Sessions help teachers develop Web-based projects as a learning activity for their students, a curriculum development initiative, or some combination of the two.

Our Experience

World Education has provided training and technical assistance in nonformal education for adults and children around the world since 1951. We've delivered technology training to a wide variety of programs in the United States, and we bring examples and insights from the teachers we've met across the country to every training session.

To learn more about World Education by visiting the World Education Web site. You can more about our tech work, and the organizations we have worked with, by exploring this site, or contact us for more information.