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CTELL Project
Case Technologies to Enhance Literacy
Learning
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Teacher's College,
Columbia University
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University of
Georgia
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University of
Connecticut
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University of Illinois,
Chicago
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The CTELL project seeks fundamental improvement in pre-service
teacher education and early literacy learning. We do this
through an on-going research effort to develop and study
the use of multimedia cases of best practice instruction for
pre-service education in early literacy. Our work is based
on partnerships with teachers, schools, teacher educators,
and universities.
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This project uses knowledge about
best practices of early literacy education to target improvements
in teacher education and young children's literacy achievement.
Case-based, anchored instruction using high speed, streaming
video over the Internet and in CD/DVD-ROM provide a new
model for pre-service teacher education, making visible the
richness and complexity of best practice instruction to teacher educators,
pre-service teachers, and classroom teachers.
An extensive set of studies use the digital, multimedia
resources available at our site to study the use of a
case-based approach to pre-service teacher education.
We plan to accomplish three central objectives: (a) raise
pre-service teachers' understanding of best practices of early literacy
education; (b) increase pre-service teachers' use of best
practices in the classroom when they first begin teaching;
and (c) significantly raise young children's reading achievement.
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View the Knowledge
Quest article about the CTELL project here.
Click on "Case Technologies to Enhance Literacy Learning".
Please contact Donald Leu at Donald.Leu@uconn.edu and visit
the CTELL website at ctell.uconn.edu
for more information.
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