Future Teaching in Hawaii

Abstract

Utilizing information from Hawaii state documents and personnel involved in Hawaii’s education reform, an instructional website was created to inform elementary school Department of Education teachers in Hawaii about the future areas of technology change in Hawaii’s public schools. This paper describes the process and development of the online module as well as the results of a survey that teachers completed both before and after information was presented. Data collected in these surveys focused on measuring teachers’ knowledge of future technology trends as well as their overall feeling of readiness to teach in Hawaii in the upcoming years. Results from the surveys show that after completion of the module, teachers felt they had a better overall understanding of the major technology areas of change in Hawaii’s public schools than prior to their participation in the module.