Overall, I feel that my school is probably pretty fair in regards to meeting the ISTE standards and its current steps towards increasing our standings in those standards. On average, I would say that we are "initiating" or "approaching" in most categories, but that we do have some "meets" going on as well. Rather than going into specifics I'll lightly touch on what we are currently doing in the school to meet the ISTE standards and leave it at that.
1. Shared Vision - we do very well at communicating, whether through e-mails, staff development, or committees (we have SIT Team, Committees and PLCs all going on). The overall concept is of progressing towards more educational technology for Student Centered/Project based learning.
2. Empowered Leaders - We have those!!!
3. Implementation Planning - we do implement our School Improvement Plan, as well as topics that we receive Professional Development on.
4. Consistent and Adequate Funding - we have made attempts to get more technology in the classroom. When the budget has been available the technology has come; when the technology hasn't been available it has waited.
5. Equitable Access - Our technology at the moment is more first come first serve, which does work to some extent in regards to the teachers who want to use it just have to budget their time in order to get the access. You might not get it on the day you want it, but as long as you wait a day or two it would be helpful.
6. Skilled Personnel - We have this too!
7. Ongoing Professional Learning - we have this available for all teachers that are wanting to use it. Whether it is through the teaching and learning conference in the summer or Professional Development during planning periods during the School year; it is always going on and available for students to attend.
8. Technical Support - our TSS person as well as our Sys-Op are both wonderful!!! We can also help each other out should it be a quick issue that needs fast trouble shooting.
9. Curriculum Framework - Our standards do associate with digital age learning and work; we try to tie in our lessons with life skills or current issues going on in the world and why we would need (Relevance)
10. Student-Centered Learning - I think this is one of the categories in which we are still progressing. We have days that that we are really on top of this category and then days that maybe not as much. But just like students are their to learn, teachers are life long learners so there's always room for more development and improvement
11. Assessment and Evaluation - We currently have common assessments going on whether it is by unit or benchmark. I think there is still room for improvement in regards to generating the data and compiling that for further evaluation.
12. Engaged Communities - This is probably one is which we can improve further. We do get community involvement in regards to many things (sports, organizations, etc.). I don't know that we have a lot of community engagement about technology, but again we are a work in continuous process.
13. Support Policies - We do set up what are expectations are and hold teachers, parents, students, etc. accountable to those expectations.
14. Supportive External Context - We do have some external context going on in our school, for some our PLN's are probably developing further than others, but it will be like a chain system where we are all linked together so after one goes the rest may slowly follow, but there will be some influence in following.
We are good and well on our way!
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