IT645 Chapter 12 Q3 How do corporations provide training resources for teachers? Give examples.

Large corporations look toward the educational community to populate their companies with qualified employees. It is well worth the investment of corporate dollars to help teachers keep abreast of technology to better educate their potential employees.
Corporation often award grants to teachers who can show a project has merit and needs funding. Also a corporation’s help to a community it services shows itself to be neighborhood friendly. Corporation often sends funds to their alma maters. If a person has received an education that has help to make that person successful, they often send monies to that institution. Research is another way that corporations help educators. Often time’s college professors perform research in specific areas that require monies that a university cannot afford to keep funding. For example, research in turning corn into fuel. Many companies may look forward to funding any research in an attempt to be on the breaking edge of new technology. Although companies have research specialist, a new mind can always fresh idea to the table, that researchers may not have thought of.
Corporations have the resources and funding to invest in new technology that school districts and universities can not. Therefore, it is well worth their time and money to fund training for teachers/instructors and professors to learn what is new. This information can then be taught to upcoming employees and saves corporations from having to employee teachers on their payrolls. It is cheaper to fund a research project or educate a teacher to train students than to employ a group of teachers, and pay medical benefits, salaries and retirement benefits.
Not only does large corporation give to educational endeavors, some small companies do also. Often companies are looking for people to try out new products. What better way then to contribute to a local school. Students get the chance to use new products and companies get feedback that will make their product better. If a student starts out using a certain product research has proven they will stay with that product. There are many word processing products on the market; however, more popular by far is Microsoft WORD. Microsoft just about gives it software to educational institutions. This will prove profitable when students buy software for their own private use at home. Microsoft is not the only company practicing this kind of sales for the future. GPS monitoring systems does the same, and school calculators companies like “Texas Instruments” also have educator grants.
If a teacher can find the time to do research and write letters and grant applications, he/she can find monies to help their school district keep up with emerging technology.