Staff Competency Goals (Five-Year Goals)

Professional Development

The effective planning and implementation of professional development opportunities are essential if educators and students are going to fully utilize
technology. The core competencies that will be required of all information workers in the 21st Century include the ability to access, analyze and communicate the abundance of information available, today and in the future. These core skills will serve as the foundation from which lifelong learners will create their own knowledge using the abundance of information available. In order for those skills to be developed and refined, continuous professional development opportunities should be provided to educators, along with the chance for recipients of computer technology training and staff development to practice and refine their newly acquired knowledge.

The key to effective staff development related to technology is to transfer knowledge and skills into realistic learning opportunities, everyday in each classroom. The staff competency goals identified to support student learning and educational reform are those from the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) guidelines for Accreditation of Educational Computing and Technology (1992), which are:

Demonstrate ability to operate a computer system in order to successfully utilize software.

Evaluate and use computers and related technologies to support the instructional process.

Apply instructional principles, research and appropriate assessment practices to the use of computers and related technologies.

Explore, evaluate and use computer/technology-based materials, including applications, educational software and associated documentation.

Demonstrate knowledge of uses of computers for problem solving, data collection, information management, communications, presentations and decision making.

Design, develop and implement student learning activities that integrate computing and technology for a variety of student grouping strategies and for diverse student populations.

Evaluate, select and integrate computer/technology-based instruction in the curriculum of one's subject area(s) and/or grade levels.

Demonstrate knowledge of use of multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications to support instruction.

Demonstrate skill in using productivity tools for professional and personal use, including word processing, database, spreadsheet and print/graphics utilities.

Demonstrate knowledge of equity, ethical, legal and human issues of computing and technology use as they relate to society and model appropriate behaviors.

Identify resources for staying current in applications of computing and related technologies in education.

Use computer-based technologies to access information to enhance personal and professional productivity.

Apply computers and related technologies to facilitate emerging roles of the learner and the educator.

Administrative Goals (Five-Year Goals)

Utilize technology to efficiently record and file important data related to:
a. personnel g. purchasing
b. facilities h. accounts payable
c. students i. inventory
d. scheduling j. transportation
e. attendance k. grants
f. payroll l. budgeting

Utilize technology to produce reports required by:
a. federal government c. local government
b. state government d. school officials

Utilize technology to effectively monitor:
a. curricular development c. student performance
b. personnel evaluation d. professional development

Utilize technology to efficiently and effectively communicate within the school district and between the school district and community through means such as:
a. word processing e. electronic bulletin board
b. e-mail f. newsgroups (Internet)
c. fax g. lists (Internet)
d. voice mail h. web page (Internet)

Utilize technology to locate, identify, and retrieve a variety of important information and resources through the Internet.

Information Access Goals (Five-Year Goals)

Utilize telecommunications with sufficient bandwidth to process voice, data, images and videos, in reasonable time.

Utilize both internal and external network systems to connect within our school district, and between our school district and community and with the world including linking all schools and community libraries through a network.

Utilize distance learning, to expand instruction at all levels of our school district and within the entire community.

Utilize multimedia technology to enhance teaching and learning at all levels within the school district and to more effectively keep the community informed.

Utilize the latest technology to increase the school district's and community's capacity to store information.

Instructional/Curricular Goals (Five-Year Goals)

Utilize technology to help administration:
Manage curricula development, administration and revision.

Monitor the implementation of instruction.

Evaluate student learning outcome assessments.

Identify state-of-the-art instructional resources necessary for effective teaching and learning.

Utilize technology to help teachers:
Use word processing, data base, spreadsheets, graphics and other purchased software lessons when appropriate.

Use video codec technology to bring visual and audio information into the classroom.

Provide a variety of hands-on learning experiences for students as they learn by interfacing with computers and peripheral technology.

Provide distance learning opportunities in the classroom through networks such as the Internet, etc.

Present effective multimedia presentations that will increase student motivation.

Provide increased research opportunities for students through computer networked research resources.

Provide unique challenges to students by allowing computer aided individualized instruction and increased variety and choices.

Provide cooperative learning experiences through computer peer-tutoring and group project work.

Provide teachers with the opportunity to develop their own software so that computer-aided and multimedia presentations better reflect teacher prepared lessons.

Integrate material between content areas, when appropriate.

Generate individualized student learning plans.

Generate more appropriate classroom assessments that are matched to taught curricula, Common Core and Curriculum Frameworks.
Utilize technology to help students:
Gain increased access to computer technology (knowledge and skills).

Learn to use and apply a variety of hardware and software products.

Learn to work more effectively and efficiently through computer-aided learning and task completion.

Learn to individualize their learning through a variety of choices of material and resources.

Learn to produce hard copies of work that are useful and of high quality.

Learn to predict outcomes and solve problems with technology (e.g., critical thinking).

Learn how to access, evaluate, organize and utilize information from sources throughout the school site (i.e., such as from the schools' libraries, department libraries).

Learn how to access pertinent information from sources other than at the school site, through networks to other schools within the school district and through networks throughout the world (Internet).

Learn to work cooperatively with fellow students on group projects, aided by computer technology.