As I have been reading and learning about the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020 I have learned a great deal. The area that really caught my eye was, Educator Preparation and Development. I am currently a teacher, but hope to move into administration in the next year or two. As the teacher I do not feel as though I receive enough training on technology, so this was an area I wanted to dive into a little deeper. There are six sub-categories under this category. My current elementary campus scored “Advanced” during the 2008-2009 school year, but our score dropped to “Developing” during the 2009-2010 school year. Our scores for the 2010-2011 school year are incomplete, but the 2011-2012 show still at the “Developing” level. It is my opinion from randomly talking to colleagues that the scores in 2008-2009 were somewhat overinflated because the Star Chart Survey was new and not all teachers even understood the questions. I believe that we need to have more training in many if not all areas of technology. Even within the Microsoft Office bundle that is used on my campus only a small portion of the products capabilities are utilized. I feel that this is due to a lack of training and expectations for implementation. Plus we have many teachers that will just ask for the same type of help over and over. It is my opinion that at some point the teacher has to be given an assignment where they use the products that are provided. We are all busy, but it is our professional responsibility to learn, grow, and change with the times. This profession is moving towards being technology based and as educator we need to jump on board.
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