Unlike other professionals, and despite near-universal agreement on the importance of teaming, teachers do not typically work in teams. In the case of Information Technology (IT) subjects, many CTE teachers are isolated and lack a Professional Learning Community to collaborate with and to make adjustments to instruction and assessments.

Please meet John Rosendahl, from the Chino area, who is a teacher who would like to collaborate! I met John last week at a workshop designed to help teachers develop or modify courses to meet University of California a-g requirements. John would like to meet and collaborate with other teachers on a new computer science course and information technology. California needs good IT courses that teachers want to teach, and that will prepare students for this exciting career field.

If this is an area of your interest, please contact John by email at: John_Rosendahl@chino.k12.ca.us

About John:

Concert Pianist. Lived in Columbia 2 years fluent in Spanish.  Graduated in Chemical Engineering BYU.  Started a successful Pharmaceutical Technology Company, Pharm-Tech. Married wife who persuaded me to get into teaching.  My first day I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.  Taught Physics 5 years.  Last 11 years CTE teacher: taught Computer Technology, Computer Science.  Computer technology deals with Searching methods, hardware, software, Networking, Security including Active Directory training, Computer Math, Algorithms, Boolean And, Or etc Subnetting, IP math etc.  Computer Science deals with Microsoft .net, Java, and Dreamweaver programming.  I am interested in collaborating with one or more teachers, Administrators, Business people and Professors to help my students gain the same success that I had when I was young.