When Rick Bauer was IT Director at The Hill School he was in the vanguard of private school technology directors. He implemented an Authorized Academic Training Program for Microsoft Certification as part of his technology studies curriculum. Check it out! It is an impressive and really practical way of both educating his young charges about things technological, and also making sure that they have a marketable job skill when they graduate. Computer certification is a prerequisite for almost any job in the industry these days. Technology offers young people endless career possibilities.
This is how Rick summed up the goals of his school's program:
"The Hill School prepares students to become certified so they may be employed by local companies, receive summer internships, assist in the HillNET Technology program, or pursue a career in a technology-related discipline. While pre-professional in nature and exactly parallel in scope and instructional pedagogy to any corporate-level MCSE training, the AATP program at Hill combines learning in current technologies with an absolute and unswerving commitment to a liberal arts education. In this manner, the best of both worlds is maintained."
It's a cutting edge idea which is worth finding out about!
