Action+Plan

=Action Plan=

What were your technology goals for this year based on your involvement in the Leadership 2.0 Grant?



What were your professional development goals for this year? What training did/will receive to achieve these goals? What are your technology goals for your students? What activities and/or projects did/will your students do to achieve these goals?

Establishing Goals
//Goal Statements:// Goal statements ought to be specific and clearly describe what you wish to accomplish so that specific action steps can be defined and outcomes measured. In order to maximize efforts and resources, these goals should: The goals statements could relate to professional development, curriculum development and integration, technology literacy, access, or student achievement. Below are a few sample goals.
 * support the vision outlined in your local educational technology plan;
 * be consistent with the objectives of your statewide technology plan;
 * align with school and district curriculum priorities and initiatives;
 * promote teaching strategies and curricula that integrate technology effectively;
 * advance improved student achievement;
 * align with challenging national and state content standards;
 * support and advance student technology literacy;
 * and improve the capacity of teachers, principals, and administrators to integrate technology effectively into curriculum and instruction.

//Sample Goals:// Professional development is the training and development needed by teachers, administrators, and staff to use technology tools within the teaching and learning environment. According to Planning into Practice (SEIRTEC, 2000), "professional development goals should address both the how and the why of teaching and learning with technology." A stated goal of the Ed Tech Program is "to assist every student in crossing the digital divide by ensuring that every student is technologically literate by the time the student finishes the eighth grade." In order to more clearly understand what is meant by technology literacy, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has established National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for students. These standards describe what students should know and be able to do with technology and provide extensive guidance in the establishment of technology literacy goals. The following are sample goals in this area:
 * Professional Development**
 * Our teachers will participate in online professional development to acquire instructional strategies and pedagogy necessary to facilitate learner-centered, standards-based curricula that integrate the use of technology tools.
 * Our teachers, administrators, and staff will participate in professional development opportunities necessary to advance the technical skills required to foster online communication among students, teachers, administrators, parents, and community members.
 * Our administrators will participate in professional development to acquire the tools and skills needed to analyze student achievement data.
 * Our teachers will be provided release time and access to an online forum in order to share individual content expertise with other staff in the school, district, and region.
 * Student Technology Literacy**
 * Our students will develop technology literacy in the area of communications through the use of telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
 * Our students will use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions in technology infused mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts classes.
 * Our students will use technology enhanced research tools to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources

Access is the availability of resources necessary to utilize technology for teaching and learning. This includes access to hardware, software, online resources, and support. The goals in the area of access should be explicit about the resource as well as the intended result. Curriculum development and integration goals should describe how the technology will support the state and national learning standards in core curriculum areas. They should make explicit which tools will be incorporated and how the tools will be used. =Resources=
 * Access**
 * A ratio of one workstation to every three students will be established in each school in the district in order to ensure access for learners to write and publish across the curriculum.
 * Curriculum Development and Integration**
 * Our middle school teachers will incorporate technology tools and online mini-applications into the standards-based mathematics curriculum in order to support student investigations and data analysis.
 * Our elementary teachers will incorporate the use of technology tools such as text-to-speech and word-processing hardware and software into the classroom in order to facilitate the writing process, promote creativity, and increase accessibility to text content.

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