The Texas Long-Range Plan has 4 areas. The one area that I feel is very important to me and to my campus is Educator Preparation and Development. The reason I feel it is very important is because it is my campus’ weakness currently. We have a great infrastructure, many technology applications for teachers and students, and a great budget in getting current technology to my district. The one area I feel we are really lacking in is good, effective professional development for technology. Educator Preparation and Development or “professional learning is an ongoing process that provides current educators with the knowledge and skills and classroom strategies to transform teaching and learning.” (Long-range Plan, 2006, p. 23)
As a state, we have moved from 19.9% Advanced Tech in 2007 to 26.8% Advance Tech in 2009. We are making progress in this area, as a state, but we are still only 0.7% Target Tech in 2009-2010. We are very far away from our goal in this area and almost half-way to the year 2020. As a campus, we have been Developing Tech for the past 3 years and have only moved up 1 point in our Key Area Total. As a campus, we are currently not helping our state’s summary in this area at all. My recommendation for improvement in this area at my campus is for my campus and district “provide coursework that addresses standards and their relationship with core subjects” by providing professional development opportunities to educators that address our technology TEKS and how to implement them into our regular subjects. (Lecture) Another recommendation I have for my campus and district is to provide more opportunities for distance learning (Lecture). Many teachers have a full plate and the thought of having to go to professional development class is overwhelming to them, but if we gave them the option to take online technology courses through the school year and summer, I feel that many teachers would take advantage of that opportunity.
References:
Long-Range Plan for Technology 2006-2020. (2006). Retrieved from http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/technology/EktronAttach/FinalCombinedLRPT2020.pdf
Week 1 Lecture Notes
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