Teachers Become Life-Long Learners

To use technology for this sort of authentic learning, teachers need to be educated on technology. Cardinal Pacelli has made substantial commitments to that education. As we move to this model of exploration of students to ask and answer their own questions, it becomes the goal of the teacher not to just pour facts and figures and dates into student's heads but to help students to learn how to find out the information needed.

Teachers at Cardinal Pacelli School are very creative, very intelligent people, who quickly see the power of technology. As they use it for their own professional lives -- for keeping records, for typing lesson plans, and for their own learning -- they come up with all kinds of ways that technology can enhance what they are doing with students.

Cardinal Pacelli knows that it is not enough to bring in technology either from the top down or the bottom up. It must come from both ends. The parish and administration along with the eagerness of the teachers is what has made the technology program at Cardinal Pacelli School so successful.

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