Leadership, Administration and Instructional Support
Leadership, Administration and Instructional Support has a vision of school leaders doing everything they can to support teachers in implementing technology during instruction. School leaders hold the responsibility for setting a vision for their school in terms of technology use in the classroom. They are to model using technology and train teachers in professional development in effective technology based instruction. Administrators should be completing needs based assessments and making decisions based on the data they receive. At our school, we implemented a technology committee, however I am not sure yet what strides this committee has made. We also have distance education programs where students are able to gain college credit for their coursework. My recommendation would be to closely monitor these two resources and see how they can best fit the needs of our students.
The trends in both state and national progress are that schools are improving their technology use, but not at the rate that fits the needs of our millennial learners. Teachers old and young are working to implement technology use in their classroom, however, students are so far ahead that often our efforts are lacking. There is so much available to teachers that it can be overwhelming to begin digging in. Another issue is that teachers often try to use new technology in the old ways. They are not really getting the full potential out of programs and technological equipment. If teachers would give students more freedom to use technology the way they know how, and train them as to what is appropriate, they would find that students really can learn so much!
