As we transition to include high school in the 1:1 program next year, we are trying to motivate teachers to increase their technology skills while exploring ways to integrate their students' laptop tools into their classroom.
One method is to mandate teacher training which may result in a negative response from the teachers and thus a poor start to the program. The other way is to motivate the teachers to attend training seminars on their own free will. One method guarantees all teachers will receive training while the other focuses on self initiative and teacher driven. Our school is using the teacher driven method at this point and our principal put together an incentive program to start: