Week 4 Assignment, Part 1: Development of an organization chart integrating technology

ORGANIZATIONAL CHART RESPONSIBILITIES

School Board-Having been named school board of the year by Region One our school board is the body of representatives that have final authority to implement district policies that govern entire school district. They are leaders as it pertains to the area of technology. They can determine if adequate funding is provided for technology, and they control policies that effect technology throughout the district.

Superintendent-Mr. Leonel B. Galaviz-The Superintendent is like the president of a university he runs the entire school district. He manages the day-to-day operations making sure that all schools are doing what they are supposed to be doing. All programs, much like the Technology

Superintendent of Schools

Technology CoordinatorAsst. Superintendent for Secondary Schools

PrincipalCurriculum Facilitators

Teacher Instructional Technology Technician

PEIMS Analyst

Technology Facilitators

Network Specialist

School Board

plan, is brought over to him and he signs the documents assuring that we are in compliance with state mandates.

Assistant-Superintendent for Secondary Schools-Dr. Rosemarie Gomez- She make recommendations to our Superintendent. She assists in the area of curriculum and instruction and has played a huge role in incorporating a computer based programs with hands on activities for the entire math and science departments in our elementary, middle, and high schools.

Technology Coordinator-Mr. Abraham Ramirez- He oversees the technology department and makes sure that the district technology is up and running. He also makes recommendations to our assistant superintendent about any professional development that will facilitate technology integration for teaching.

Principal-Mr. Rolando Ramirez- Our principal Mr. Ramirez oversees the day-to-day operations at the high school. He allocates responsibilities with other administrators and makes sure that resources are available at all phases of the school. Through scheduled professional development he ensures that all personnel are incorporating proper use of technology in their classrooms to facilitate student learning.

Curriculum Facilitators-They provide structure and support to all teachers with their expertise. They also bring in presenters to deliver helpful strategies we could use in our classrooms, specially when it comes to the area of technology.

PEIMS Analysts-These are the hard workers who gather and report all district data and make sure that we are in compliance with the state.

Technology Facilitator-Mr. Larry Reger- Aside from the man that does the dirty work in programming computers and assisting teachers he oversees the use of technology at the high school campus.

Network Specialists-Mr. MoyaHe maintains the district network, and is able to open up educational websites that are accidentally filtered out for student use.

Teachers-We work with the technology available to us in our every day lives. Teachers make sure that their instruction is based on the TEKS especially in the areas of technology.

Instructional Technology Technicians-They install needed programs in our computers and make sure that if technology fix needs to get done, they get the job done.

Week 4 Assignment, Part 2: Professional Development Planning

Staff Development Agenda

Session Purpose:

To promote technology use in the classrooms and improve student achievement. In addition teachers must learn to implement web based and hands-on activities to make learning fun.

Learning Objective to Be Addressed:

Learning Objective 1: Go over AEIS report

Learning Objective 2: Increase Technology awareness

Campus:

Valley View High school

Facilitators:

Principal/ Curriculum Coordinator/ Department

Heads

Location:

School Cafeteria

Start Time:

8:30 AM

End-Time:

3:30 PM

Learner-Centered Activity

Purpose Description StepsEstimated

Time

Breakfast

Provide breakfast for our staff and create an inviting environment.

Pick up breakfast before beginning statements from our principal.

Come in to the cafeteria, have breakfast, wait for beginning statements.

30 min.

Briefly discuss areas of

Use Last year’s AEIS results

Show PowerPoint

60 min.

Review Desegregated data

concern for each department and be aware of the areas our students are lacking in knowledge so that they can master it this year.

and CIP to harden the need for improvement for each department.

presentation with last years data and charts to illustrate the areas of concerns and discuss specific populations of students to target.

Break

Technology Support

Lunch

Soak in information

Learn how to use and incorporate the technology tools we have purchased for our students to use to achieve mastery in future assessments.

On Break

Organize grouping by departments to brainstorm ideas on how to incorporate these new programs or technology devices our campus have purchased to incorporate in our classrooms.

On Break

Break into groups according to each department.

Each department head will conduct their training at a different location to discuss different technology tools that we could use to implement on an every day basis.

15 min.

60 minutes

90 min.

Organizational Technology

Break

To make sure each teacher knows how to log into their grade book and is aware of all the specific tools they can use regarding their students information.

Teachers will also receive instruction on how to access their username and passwords for school accounts.

On Break

All staff will meet back at the school’s cafeteria and listen to our PEIMS director discuss a few tools we need to use in our classrooms.

On Break

Meet at the cafeteria after we come back from lunch.

PEIMS director will discuss a few Organizational tools that will help teachers keep better records on their students.

On Break

60 min.

15min.

Communication & Informational Support

To enhance communication skills and promote sharing teaching tools and strategies.

Our assistant principal will discuss the importance of good communication with other staff members through an activity and also answer any questions regarding school email accounts.

Upon break teachers will be listen to Mr. Castillo, assistant principal.

Mr. Castillo will break us into groups for an activity.

He will then wrap up for completion of our staff development.

45 min.

Closing remarks and evaluation period

To thank teachers for their

Closing remarks and facilitator’s

Thank the staff for their attendance

30 min.

participation on today’s professional development and ask teachers for their opinions on the effectiveness of these trainings.

evaluation on the effectiveness of today’s staff development meeting.

and praise them for their hard work and dedication.

Instruct teachers to clean up before they leave.

Ask the teachers to take part of an evaluation which will be taken at a computer nearest to them.

         

Week 4 Assignment, Part 3: Evaluation Planning for Action Plan

EVALUATION PLAN

Time Schedule

Description of Activity Facilitators Participants Location Comments

3:00-3:30 pm

Evaluation of Technology Staff

Development

Principals/ PEIMS

Director/ Department

Heads

All Teaching staff

Teacher Classroom

on their own

computer.

Teachers will be asked to take a web based

survey on their professional

development from their own teacher computers upon completion. The

web link will be provided to them in the school email. Teachers will be asked to share their experiences and

how they plan to apply the technology in their classroom. A blog site will then be set up for

any teachers whom would like to post their responses of this staff

development.

This form of evaluation must take place shortly after today’s professional development. The process although convenient, it also provides teachers with a quick assessment to see how many learner how to access these links and process the evaluation. This form of evaluation lets us see if our teachers are up to the task on these technology acquisition exercises. For us students in the Masters program we are used to these evaluations at the completion of every class, this one will be no different. They are fast, simple and informative; I hope at the end we have all learned something from this.