Week 2 Assignment....Texas Long Range for Technology

The Texas Long Range Goal looks at four key areas: Teaching and Learning, Educator Preparation and Development, Leadership, Administration and Instructional Support, and Infrastructure for Technology. For the past three years beginning in 2006-2007 Educator Preparation and Development scores lower than in other areas. For the 2008-2009 school it scored the lowest in three years with a 10.

As administrators this is an area that truly shows a need for improvement. When looking at state and national trends this area seems to be lower for everyone. What I find interesting is that educators score lowest on this even when they are beginning teachers. For my campus they scores “Access to Professional Development” as a 1. As the person who coordinates several professional developments for the teachers on my campus and who attends many trainings on our campus I find this hard to believe. However, what we must remember as administrators is that it is not what we think, but what the faculty perceives. What this tells me is that as an administrator I need to strive to incorporate more professional development and then have more follow up with the faculty to ensure that learning is happening. We are a PLC campus and we could utilize the PLC as a way to ensure that all faculty members are being helped to the capacity that they need it and to use the safety of a PLC for them to ask their colleagues for help and guidance as well.

Another area of concern was Professional Development for Online Learning. We strive to teach our students to be life long learners so I feel that we should do all we can to help our teachers be that as well. I will bring this issue to my cluster director and investigate ways that can help all of our teachers with this type of professional development to encourage them.