Accountability_and_Nets

Describe a plan to ensure that students and teachers in your school are meeting the NETS. Please indicate the tools and practices you will use to monitor this.

The first phase of our technology plan would be to identify members for an instructional technology committee. These members would be responsible for breaking and communicating the NETS, relaying information to and from staff, and assisting with the monitoring of student and instructor progress. The initial focus in our meetings would be to identify student and teacher prior knowledge. An effective way to accomplish this woulod be to develop an online survey and or pretest using Quia. The results would develop a baseline of proficiencies and specific needs. Once we have analyzed this data, we would create a staff development plan for each grade level/ department. Teachers would be able to address their technology deficiencies in their yearly PGP goals. It would be necessary for the committee to strategically assign faculty members to and identify team leaders for each group. The team leaders would attend trainings and present the newly acquired information to his/ her team during professional learning communities. In addition, the team leader would be available to assist his/ her teammates on an ongoing basis. The IT committee would also be responsible for developing instructional focus calendars, activities, and assessments to monitor progress. It is imperative that the committee break down the technology standards and teaching responsibilities, and assign them to a predetermined group of teachers. For example, Social Studies teachers would be responsible for teaching effective researching skills on the world wide web, because it is closely related to their content area. In addition, Mathematics teachers would be assigned the responsibility of teaching students how to create and manage spreadsheets. This would allow teachers to become experts in a specific area. Teachers could also plan within their team to create interdisciplinary units, allowing them to integrate technology into their curriculum areas. As years progress and teachers become more proficient in their areas, the technology IFC's could be rotated to different groups. This would assist in the development of all techonogical skills for all teachers.