Sunday 3 June 2007

A lot of this also helps me define my own goals.

  • Educational leaders and stakeholders will develop a technology leadership vision and goals for the district and schools. All stakeholders will know the desired technology goals and the measures that will determine if those goals have been met. Both the vision and the goals should focus on improved student learning and teacher effectiveness as the predominate outcomes. Teacher effectiveness in the final analysis must be focused on how successful teachers are in improving student learning.

  • Educational leaders and stakeholders will design and conduct needs assessments that will inform them where they are now in technology integration, will indicate how far they are from reaching their vision and goals, and will provide information about what are the initial priorities for accomplishing those goals.

  • Educational leaders and stakeholders will develop action plans to define immediate and long-term tasks, resources needed, timelines, and benchmarks for accomplishing the technology goals.

  • Educational leaders and stakeholders will develop communication plans and political action strategies necessary to establish commitment and obtain resources.

  • Educational leaders and stakeholders will design and implement the necessary professional development plans to ensure that teachers have the knowledge and skills to successfully implement technology.

  • Educational leaders and stakeholders will have sufficient knowledge of the change process research in order to anticipate and address change problems and issues.

  • Educational leaders and stakeholders need to develop formative and summative evaluation plans that will guide the successful implementation of tasks and inform them when they have accomplished the desired technology goals.

Critical Issue: Technology Leadership: Enhancing Positive Educational Change,

Gilbert Valdez

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/leadrshp/le700.htm

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