Cramlington Community High in Northumberland encourages parents to e-mail teachers to discuss children's progress, and the Cardinal Wiseman Catholic Technology College in Birmingham has a website with an "e-portal" for parents.
It means trying to address a situation where even as we have now for 35 straight months seen private sector job creation, we have for much of that time seen job loss in state and local governments, a vast portion of it in education, i.e. school teachers.
The programme has been designed for both pre-service teacher education, i.e. for student teachers, and in the in-service education of experienced teachers.
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The dispute over coursework marking, which is subject to an official investigation this week, has sparked large numbers of angry e-mails from teachers, pupils and parents.
It has distributed 1, 100 Kindles and 180, 000 e-books to kids and teachers in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.
This is the same thinking behind seniority rules, which protect more expensive teachers (i.e. veterans) from being laid off due to budget cuts.
Another innovation is the automatic translation of Web sites and creation of "bilingual e-mail" to help teachers, students and parents communicate and bridge the digital divide.
Through an innovative Public-Private Partnership (PPP), it trained over 3, 000 teachers in ICT skills using six e-curricula as tools to enrich the national curriculum.
With e-learning sites offering students access to the best teachers without having to call in at their institutional home, there is a danger that the universities' academic superstars may choose to go solo.
The Indian Institute of Technology has developed a methodology combining e-learning and direct contact session in remote centres across the country to train teachers.
"Collaboration and hands-on learning can be messy and it takes awhile for teachers who have been working in traditional classrooms to find that balance, " she said in an e-mail.
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