Tech Assessments, Week 1, Part 2

This blog is in response to the two surveys completed as part of week 1 of my Instructional Leadership class. We were to take two surveys – the Texas Technology Applications Inventory and the SEDTA survey for teachers. The first of the surveys dealt primarily with the individual teachers’ preparedness for technology, while the second dealt with the teacher and school’s integration of the technology into their respective class room.

The results of the Texas Inventory was as follows:
Foundations domain – 17 yes/1 no
Information Acquisition domain – 9 yes/1 no
Solving Problems domain – 13 yes/5 no
Communication domain – 7 yes/5 no

This didn’t really surprise me because technology is something I enjoy and try to integrate into my classroom as much as possible. These results do not surprise me and are about what I expected.

The results I did not expect came from the SEDTA survey. I did expect the district to do as well on my survey as they did, but the area that concerned me was the minimal impact that my class is having on the digital education of my students. Since I value technology as I do, I am concerned at my lack of integration into my class. Yes my class is a performance based class, and no amount of technology will ever be able to replace the tactile experience of playing an instrument, but there are areas where technology can be implemented and developed in my students. This will be an area of personal development that I will focus on in the coming months, so that at the beginning of next year, I will be able to take this survey and fare better.

Texas Technology Applications Inventory
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/techapp/assess/teksurv.pdf

SEDTA survey for teachers
http://www.setda-peti.org/tools.html