Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020: Teaching and Learning
In the first category of the STaR chart, Teaching and Learning, the main focus is the thy of instruction being provided to the students in the classrooms. The results sort the classrooms by teacher-centered, teacher –directed, teacher-facilitated, and teacher as facilitator and co-learner in the classroom. In order to achieve the Target Tech title the classroom must be technology based and students must have readily available systems to access technology at any given time in their learning and in some cases, at all times.
My campus has seen a progression in the teaching and learning category over the last 3 years, remaining in the developing tech stage though. We began in 2007 with a total score of 11 points, and our lowest area being the specific online learning. We have progressed to a total of a 14 in the category now and moved from a 2 to a 4 total in “design of the instructional setting” and we moved from a 1 to a 2 in the online learning area.
The state summary shows that the majority of the campus stated that they were at the developing tech stage. This is a great place to be as we have moved past the “early tech” and now are almost all focused on trying to regularly use technology within our daily teachings.
I believe that the principals today are working toward moving their teachers to the Target Tech stage, however, this is a timely process as change does not happen over-night. I believe that the key to making our way to the Target Tech is that we keep moving in a forward direction, providing teachers with the training and the classrooms with the technology to grow.
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