Word: hgse
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...Teachers For two decades Harvard was recognized as a national leader in the training of teachers through the Masters of Arts in teaching (MAT) program. Ten years ago the HGSE faculty voted to eliminate this program, largely as a consequence of the elimination of formerly substantial federal funds for this enterprise and of the shifting interests of the HGSE faculty. One program at HGSE which maintained an involvement with teachers was Professor Jeanne Chall's Reading Laboratory where both inexperienced and experienced teachers could become reading specialists for the schools...
...their subject matter and were academically strong--to the teaching profession. The fields that seemed to us then as the leading ones for such an undertaking were mathematics and science. Events of the last twelve months have confirmed our original view. Dr. Katherine Merseth has been instrumental in organizing HGSE's return to teacher preparation through our new MidCareer Math and Science Program. Successful completion of this program will yield a master's degree and Massachusetts certification as a high school mathematics (and possibly science) teacher. We believe that such a step is an important one, both actually and symbolically...
...Technology: One of the most notable strenghts of HGSE in past years has been the work undertaken by Professor Gerald Lesser and his colleagues in developing the children's television program. "Sesame Street" and by Professor Courtney Cazden on "The Electric Company...
Building on this significant tradition. HGSE faculty agreed this year to appoint a new faculty member to augment our present resources so that we can develop one-year program on technology and education. The intent of the program is to prepare persons to work in school systems and help the schools make intelligent use of the plethora of new hardware and software currently being offered to them. Expertise, particularly intelligent skepticism about the new technologies, is in short supply, and we hope that such a program will both attract good students and be useful to them...
...addition, in early October. HGSE was awarded a five-year. $7.6 million contract from the National Institute of Education to establish and operate a national center for research is school technology...