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Article: Stepping outside my technology classroom box: (my summer RET experience).(Research Experience for Teachers)(Cover story)
- Article from:
- The Technology Teacher
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
- Author:
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As if sitting in the morning rush hour traffic was not bad enough, it was also the first Monday of my summer vacation. My commute to school is usually an uneventful fifteen minutes, but thinking of going into the city for six weeks was starting to make me feel like turning around in the median and heading back to bed. Luckily for me, I did not.
A colleague of mine from another school had told me about an RET (Research Experience for Teachers) at Vanderbilt University's School of Engineering. What was I thinking? I am just a Foundations of Technology/Algebra I teacher at a middle school in the suburbs. Most of my formal training had ...
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