Pre-service teachers' use of technology to create instructional materials: a school-college partnership

Abstract The field experience component has always been a vital part of teacher education programs (Paese, 1989). This article describes collaborative work designed to give an opportunity to pre-service teachers to mesh theory with practice in an instructional material preparation course. Pre-service teachers were assigned to complete a computer project, which will be used to support classroom lessons. These projects were supervised by the classroom teachers at the basic education schools and the supervising professor at the College of Education. As a result of this collaborative work, pre-service teachers and classroom teachers practiced developing instructional materials and integrating technology in subject content areas, became more comfortable with the technology and developed greater proficiency in their computer use