The methods course that I teach, EDUC 450 is an extensive six credit hour course, which encompasses generic teaching methods as well as curriculum and teaching methods for mathematics, science and social studies in the elementary school.ĮDUC 450: Principles of Instructional. The teaching process was depicted, a narrative and analysis by the teacher was included, and they were correlated to aspects of the model. This set of videos initially seemed like they would be extremely valuable classroom resources. The second resource was composed of a set of Classroom video clips. I suppose most of us include these things in a methods course, but this model was a valuable alternative both for my students and me and it was available to us on line. This model presented the context of the teaching process in an organized way. The project presented two resources that seemed most valuable to me. My participation in that meeting with representatives form several other Renaissance Grant Institutions made the goals of the project more clear to me. I was offered the opportunity to participate in the I N T IME conference planning meeting that would be held the following June. This project seemed like a good vehicle for adjusting and improving the things I had been doing.

I was not fully aware of the details of the project, but I was interested in making more profitable use of technology in teaching the methods course. In the middle of my first year at Longwood I became aware of the I N T IME project. I was teaching a methods course in a college classroom to students who had limited experience in real classrooms beyond their time as students. My tenure at Longwood started in the same way. Oh sure they had all been students, but that was on the other side of the line.

It always seemed that the things I wanted to present were just slightly out of context. During most of that time, I had felt restricted by my students' lack of experience in real classrooms. I have been teaching math and science methods courses for about fifteen years.

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