The Texas STaR Chart addresses the four key areas of the Texas State Long-Range Plan for Technology 2006-2020. This assignment re quires me to blog about one of the sections of my Campus' STaR Chart results. I chose the area of Educator Preparation and Development. This area includes the following: training content, educator competency, models of professional development, levels of understanding and patterns of use, professional development for online learning, and teacher access to professional development. I chose to address this area because it is an area of concern for my campus. All areas for my campus are Developing Tech, but I thought it would be higher. This particular area in 2006-2007 rated a 10, but increased to 12 the next year, and the most recent results in 2009 being 12 as well. There is little if any apparant growth in this area, I think that training for our teachers about how to use our technology in their classroom more efficiently would be beneficial, not only to this key area, but also to the area of Teaching & Learning. As teachers get more effiicient with using technology, their delivery will become better, and hopefully we will see the direct result of a focused and concentrated .
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/comm/PartIIIEducatorPreparationandDevelopment.pdf
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