Membership:

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Needs Assessments:

2 You have identified well your districts’ hardware and software availability. Your technology needs assessment should now begin to start focusing on aligning technology needs with instructional needs that have been identified through your school improvement process. Utilize your school improvement plans and school report cards to identify those areas that technology could strengthen and use this section to expand upon those ideas. Please also state the frequency of your assessment process.

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Vision Statement:

2 Again, try to commit to paper your commitment to utilize technology to increase student learning goals within your general curriculum.

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Goals:

2 Your existing goals could be used to bring this area up to a 3 rating. Alter the objectives to include some that relate to the implementation of the school’s improvement plan and other learning goals beyond those of technology skills. The current objectives read as very technology skill related without making more than an inferred link to the increase they will achieve in student learning in other curricular areas.

2 How closely do your goals and objectives tie to the school improvement plans in your district? 

Use Assessments:

2 The listed assessments will establish a baseline for technology skills. There is a need for listing instructional assessments that will help correlate technology skill improvement with content learning in other curricular areas.

2 Assessments need to include more than surveys.

Integration:

2 You have given a good description of how technology is used currently in your district, but you need to define further how technology will be integrated into the learning environment. Are teachers focusing on specific subjects? Is there a focus on particular grade level benchmarks? How will these needs be met after the grant projects are over?

2 Are there any benchmarks in your district for how well integration is taking place and at what level?

Integration Assessments:

2 An expanded description of how the assessment results are being utilized would clarify how these assessments help in the decision making process. For example, is the data being used to focus on increasing student scores on specific student learning outcomes or to increase the number of learning outcomes that have technology included in them?

2 You might use some other instruments besides a survey.

Professional Development:

2 Additional professional development activities should be offered that instructs and mentors the teachers in integrating technology into the curriculum. You have provided them with technology skills and an incentive to include those skills in their lessons, now give them instruction in how to effectively do this to impact student learning. Help them optimize their learning environment so that technology is an integral part of what they are already doing and not an additional burden and requirement to be completed.

3 Have you considered setting up some sort of mentorship program for staff to help other staff members?

Tech Prof Dev Assess:  

2 Assessment methods are in place to judge teacher learning of technology skills and a minimal measurement of what usage of these skills they have in the classroom. Expand your assessments to include how teachers have altered their instruction to allow technology to impact classroom curricular goals.

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