The Texas Long Range Plan of Technology, 2006-2020 addresses a technology plan for students, teachers, and staff across the state of Texas. These four areas included: Teaching and learning, Educator Preparation and Development, Leadership, Administration, and Instructional support, and Infrastructure for Technology.
My campus is currently at the advanced tech level in Educator and Preparation of the Texas STaR chart. This states that our campus integrates technology into our teaching and learning, online resources are in regular used, sixty percent of our teachers meet SBEC standards, and 25-29% of technology budget is allocated for professional development
(Star chart statewide data. (n.d.). Retrieved
fromhttp://starchart.esc12.net/docs/campusSWSummarybyKA20092010.pdf). This is relatively high compared to the over state of Texas. According to the STaR chart, a majority of the state’s campuses are at the developing tech level with sixty eight percent of the state’s campus meeting this level. Only twenty six percent of the state is at the advanced tech of educator preparation.
Our Educator Preparation trends have continued to increase over the past three years; however, to keep up with our technology minded students our teachers and administration must continue to challenge themselves with professional development opportunities. Professional development opportunities that help our teachers created and implement technology lessons into the classroom should be our first course of action. Currently, we have a technology specialist that could be incorporated into lesson and technology planning activities. We must encourage our teachers to use our technology specialist through classroom activities. Our teachers must use the specialist as a technology tool to incorporating technology into lessons, development, and instruction for our students and teachers education benefits.
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