There are four areas of the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology (LRPT), 2006-2020: Teaching and Learning; Educator Preparation and Development; Leadership, Administration and Instructional Support; or Infrastructure for Technology. In those four areas there are four levels of progess in each key area of the LRPT: early tech, developing tech, advanced tech, or target tech. I would like to go more in depth today with the key area of Educator Preparation and Development. This area is “preparing educators to effectively facilitate and manage 21st century learning in technology and information-rich settings involves essential retooling of the existing professional core of the educational system” (“LRPT,” p. 24, 2006). Educators have a huge job of not only teaching students but to also teach them in a way that helps them succeed in whatever endeavors lie ahead of them.
This area of the STaR chart was my campus’ greatest weakness, because it was rated at the level Developing Tech with a score of twelve that has remained the same over the past three years, nothing has changed. At the state level, there has been an overall decrease in early and developing tech. This is turn has caused an increase at the advanced and target tech progress levels. The trend still remains the same that the majority of the educators at the state level give themselves a developing tech rating which is seem in the data collected t my campus over the past three years.
It is crucial that beginning teachers meet Technology Applications educator standards and veteran teachers should have on-going job-embedded professional development in order to stay current with the technology standards. It would be helpful for teacher prep programs to offer trainings or a courses that would help prepare new teachers. There also needs to be proper resources and timed allotted to teachers to ensure they are able to receive the professional development needed to stay current.
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