Goal
1: Enhance the teaching/learning process with a wide variety
of technologies for all
students, teachers and administrators.
Goal 2: Ensure equitable
and increased access in classrooms, labs, offices and library media
centers to a wide variety of innovative technologies which include:
· Internet connectivity
· Web-based instruction and professional development
· Standards Based software for all content areas
· Updated computer hardware and peripherals which incorporates
the idea of
· Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Goal 3: Enhance the
learning environment to:
· use technology which is aligned with standards based curriculum
to advance student achievement
· support teachers as facilitators of the teaching/learning
process
· facilitate the implementation of interdisciplinary curriculum
· facilitate a shift of emphasis in learning from an assimilation
of facts to construction of knowledge
· facilitate the extended use of library media centers
Goal 4: Integrate technology
throughout the curriculum to personalize learning to:
· support student achievement of state standards in all subject
areas
· accommodate different styles, intelligences and abilities
· address cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning
· enhance the creative problem solving, and critical thinking
dimensions of learning
Goal 5: Extend the boundaries
of the learning environment by participating in:
· video conferencing/distance learning experiences
· Internet based research, collaboration and exploration
Goal 6: Assess and measure
the impact of technology on learning by:
· developing a consistent process of data collection that
can be used to assess
· progress in implementing the recommendations of this plan
· providing all staff with means to access student data
Goal 7: Promote and
establish effective, ongoing, professional development that will:
· model correct use of technology
· take advantage of the natural setting within the school
to conduct job specific training
· respond to technology related needs of individual educators
· support continuously focused attention to identified elements
in the established Technology Plan
· include a variety of incentive/responsibilities for staff
to become technologically proficient
· assure continued technical competence for teachers, administrators,
and support staff engaged in the educational enterprise
Goal 8: Link professional
development programs to state, local and regional resources in
order to:
· foster collaboration among and between elementary/secondary
education and higher education agencies at both
the instructional and administrative levels
· promote and incorporate broadly defined partnerships
· prepare a cadre of peer trainers as leaders in extending
the boundaries and uses of technology in education
Goal 9: Ensure equitable
access to professional development opportunities that will:
· develop or identify resources for all staff
· provide teachers with direct access to all identified resources
Goal 10: Assess
and measure the impact of professional development on effective
instructional use of technology by preparing an evaluative instrument
or procedure to
determine teacher integration of technology into classroom curriculum:
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