Technology Action Plan- Week 4

Technology Action Plan

Personnel Title	Name	Responsibilities
Principal	Andre Smith	The principal is the leader of instruction on each individual campus, even though they are not directly in the classroom. The principals' job includes helping create actions plans, providing surveys or other forms of measurement and feedback, coordinating with the district for planning and professional development, sharing and monitoring ideas for technology in the classroom, and modeling the usage of technology.
SBDM committee members	All individuals chosen to lead the campus decisions	The members of the site-based decision making committee are responsible for creating an action plan for their individual schools. They should also be responsible for contacting Annette Duvall about possible adding technology objectives to the campus and district improvement plans.
Coordinator of instruction technology	Annette Duvall	The district technology coordinator is responsible for using the state's standards and best-practices knowledge to lead the implementation of technology across the district. This involves communicating goals and expectations clearly with all schools and administrators.
Teachers	All instructional teachers on campus	Teachers are the implementers of the plan. They model correct technology usage in the classroom and use technology in their lesson plans to benefit the students.

 

Professional Development Planning

The following sessions will be available, and teachers can decide what to attend based on the resources available to them, their skill level, and their interests, in order to maximize the effectiveness of the sessions.

    There will be a professional development session devoted to teaching teachers about the laws regarding technology usage, both for them and their students. Included will be guidelines for how to teach students to be cautious online consumers, and to monitor them efficiently and effectively.

    I would like to create a professional development session designed to help teachers understand the technology that is already available on our campus. At North Crowley Ninth grade this would include learning how to use SmartBoards, clickers, Skype, blogs, PodCasts, Movie Maker, and personal websites. This can be done at varying levels if necessary to accommodate for more advanced users and less advanced users.

    Because our district and campus do not include technology measures in our improvement plans, I would like our SBDM committee members to attend a professional development session designed to help them understand how to effectively and efficiently evaluate data and use it to set and meet goals. This can be helpful not only in our technology action plan, but also in the use of all other data the members evaluate.

    Our SBDM members will also attend a professional development session to teach them how to convey results of the data collected based on our action plan, along with the state STaR chart and Long Range Plan data to all stakeholders. This will enable them to use their newly acquired analysis skills to help become informers of the information to the other teachers, in order to encourage improvements across the campus and district.

 

Evaluation Planning for Action Plan

Our evaluation measures will be set up based upon the goals of the action plan, and evaluated by the principal and site-based decision making committee members. All information gained will be helpful in the needs assessment for further technology planning. Here are some of the evaluation measures to be utilized, outside of the already utilized STaR chart and Texas Long Range Plan.

Post-Professional Development Surveys- In order to improve on professional development sessions and measure their level of helpfulness, some type of post-session surveys need to be created. This can be in the form of a plus/delta discussion at the end of each session, or by actual surveys to be filled out and turned in by participants, or perhaps both. Most participants will be honest in their feedback, and this will help administrators and presenters understand their needs more efficiently and effectively.

Classroom Walkthroughs- After action plans are created and professional development sessions have been attended, I would expect administrators to use walk-though mini observations as a way to evaluate how often and how well technology is being used in individual classrooms. This information can be analyzed in SBDM committee meetings to understand how effectively the plan is being implemented in the classrooms.

Student feedback- Student feedback may be the hardest evaluation process to complete, however it would be very useful to see how the students feel about technology usage and progress within each campus. This would be especially useful at the secondary level, as students, being technologically savvy, could provide suggestions for improvement.