Action Plan: Part 2

Reference analysis and lessons learned about the technology needs from the Week 3 report:

As a result of the Week 3 report on our campus technology needs, we have able to identify the areas in which we need to address. We have come to an understanding that our staff members need to be provided with more technology professional development opportunities. We also discovered that our students are not able to utilize all of the technology resources provided by the school district due to lack of knowledge about how to incorporate its uses within the classroom, as well as the teacher’s ability to display accurate knowledge of technology implementation. As well, we have discovered a need for incorporating technology for student achievement. We have found that technology intervention has helped many of our students to achieve learning goals independently and at a successful learning rate.

Likewise, we also found that there is a lack of support for our teaching staff when it comes to implementing technology within the classroom. Many teachers are not able to identify the resources that have available or the technology based professional development offered by the school district. We would like to make sure that teachers are given a set of tools to help them when incorporating technology within their classroom learning environments.

Addresses professional development designed to improve the gathering, analysis and use of data from a variety of sources:

· Provide all staff personnel with a list of resources and its educational purpose.

· Provide all staff personnel with a support network of individuals that are responsible for certain technology areas. These individuals will support classroom teachers with any issues they are having with software, internet, video streaming, and technology devices.

· Technology representative will develop monthly professional development courses to help teaching staff members to address areas of technology skills.

o Example: Many teachers want to incorporate PowerPoint opportunities for their students to use within the classroom, but aren’t sure how to present a lesson objectives and expectations to their students. The technology representative will provide a professional development course about PowerPoint and how to use it effectively within the classroom setting.

· Create an action plan that incorporates technology use within intervention strategies and techniques to raise the level of student understanding and achievement.

· Survey students about the benefits of technology within their learning. Also we would like to receive student input as to how they would like to use technology within the classroom to help them learn and communicate with their peers.

· Use technology to monitor student growth, achievement, and response to intervention techniques and strategies.

Includes professional development to improve decision making in the integration of technology with instructional and organizational leadership:

The principal along with instructional staff members and classroom teachers will form a committee to address the following needs, issues, and or concerns:

· Professional development opportunities to address the frequency requirements of student and teacher technology use.

· Professional development opportunities to provide teachers will examples of what a technology integrated lesson looks like through the role of the teacher as well as the student.

· Professional development opportunities to address materials and resources that need to made readily available for school use, and to who would have access to the technology materials.