Selected Teacher Interview Questions   How long have you been teaching in this school? How many years in total have you been teaching? What subjects(s) and grade level(s) do you teach? Prior to this year, what has been the impact of technology on your classroom instruction and assessment? How did you use it in preparing and providing instruction? How would you like to integrate the laptops into your teaching? What has been the impact of the laptops on your classroom instruction and assessment? How are you using them in preparing and providing instruction? What has been the impact of the laptops on your students (look for a range of student types)? How are they using them? How has it impacted behavior, time on task, attendance, completion of assignments, etc? What types of professional development activities have you participated in related to the laptop program? Have they been effective? What kinds of help do you wish you had right now with the laptop project? What kinds of training/workshops/support do you wish were offered right now? How easy is it to get the technical support and professional development you need? Has that support been effective? What problems have you encountered in using the laptops with your students and in you curriculum planning and instruction? How have these problems been solved? (Has this affected the class schedule?) How have parents of your students reacted to the laptop program? What do you see as your school's vision for this project? What do you see as your school's vision for teaching with technology in general? In what ways do your administration support you in implementing learning and teaching with technology? What policies are in place to help with the implementation? Have they been effective? What other challenges and initiatives does your school face right now? How is or could this project help with those? What do you see right now as the potential and promise of the learning with laptop initiative? What's the best thing about the project so far? What's the worst thing about the project so far? What are your worries or concerns about the learning with laptop initiative? What would be your request or advice to your administrators about this project? What is your overall assessment of the laptop program so far? When I come back later this year, what will I see that's different than I'll see today?

The 1-to-1 Advocate 1-to-1 Evaluation MLLS Home MLTI MLLS Research Briefs         The Maine Learning with Laptop Studies is a project of the Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning in collaboration with The Institute for the Integration of Technology Into Teaching and Learning   Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning University of Maine at Farmington 252 Main St. Farmington, ME 04938 http://www.mcmel.org Mike Muir, Director mmuir@maine.edu 207-778-7179 Inservice Available   The Institute for the Integration of Technology Into Teaching and Learning University of North Texas Matthews Hall Rm. 316 1300 Highland Ave. Denton, TX 76203 http://www.iittl.unt.edu/ Gerald Knezek, Director gknezek@gmail.com 940-565-2057 Rhonda Christensen, Associate Director rhonda.christensen@gmail.com Created by Mike Muir Last updated: April 2, 2005