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Meral Duran - Educ5324 - Technology Plan
Meral Duran - Educ5324 - Technology Plan
Date: 11/27/2016
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND
The plan should guide the LEAs use of education technology for the next three
years.
This technology plan has created for Harmony Science Academy- Houston High School.
Timeline: 7/1/2017- 6/30/2020
Harmony Science Academy- Houston High is a charter high school which serves to 9-12.
The mission of Harmony Science Academy- Houston is preparing all students for collage
with a safe, caring and collaborative environment. The school also has a powerful
intensity on Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM).
Hispanic 48%
Enrollment 614
Asian 16%
White 11%
Describe how a variety of stakeholders from within the LEA and the communityat-large participated in the planning process.
Technology planning committee had meetings in every week and monthly meetings with
the all stakeholders during planning process. After all those meetings, the committee
prepared the technology plan.
Summarize the relevant research and describe how it supports the plan's curricular
and professional development goals.
Summarize the plans major curricular and professional development outcomes that
are supported by research.
Describe and cite the relevant research that supports the plans outcomes.
Describe the connection between the research and the plans goals.
Describe information gathered from site visits, including best practices.
Technology has significant place in our daily life, specially in education. Technology
helps to educate children in a successful way, we must have technology integrated
education in all subject areas.
The reason of this technology plan is to give all students a full of technological
instruction and support to expand students success and make them ready to 21st century.
The technology plan develop different levels of policy and curriculum in technology in
school and school district.
Research studies in education demonstrate that the use of technology (e.g., computers)
can help increase students scores on standardized tests (Brain &Ross, 1999), and
improve students inventive thinking (e.g., problem solving) improve students selfconcept and motivation (Sivin-Kachala&Bialo, 2000). Since it is proven that technology
has a positive impact on promoting student success, federal and state governments
establish programs for integration of technology in the schools (Hew &Brush, 2006).
Using technology in schools will help students to be more successful in this everchanging world. That's why all schools need to have a technology plan and use it..
Technology plan is described by the Regional Technology Education Consortia's (RTEC)
Technology Plan Task Force: A technology plan serves as a bridge between traditional
established standards and classroom practice. It articulates, organizes, and integrates the
content and processes of education in a particular discipline with appropriate
technologies.
professional development?
21st century schools must provide well organized and targeted professional development
workshops for educators to encourage them to use technology in their lessons and
integrate technology into curriculum. Administrators and educators must work together
with other educators to analyze available research, as well as to figure out technologies fit
for each subject. These efforts will help teachers to integrate technology into curriculum.
Henceforth bringing more resources options into the classroom; increasing student
engagement to class; and providing effective new teaching tools for teachers.
Since HSA-Houston High has begun executing STEM Program, technological mastery
and implementing technology skills of administrators and teachers have an important role
to be successful implementing STEM program. All of the administrators and teachers
needs to be aware of the significance of technology usage. School wants Math and
science teachers to join two trainings in a year. Also other teachers should have at least
one training to use technology in correct ways in their lessons to prepare 21st century
learners to this technological world.
2. How does your LEA regularly assess teachers ability to utilize
technology in a standards-based curriculum?
Administrators and district instructional coaches will make walk-throughs and
observations to check how technology tools are being used in classrooms.
School has an effective WI-FI system inside to make all stakeholders use technology
effectively.
2. What filtering software will be used to prevent staff or student
opinions. Also a paper-based survey will be sent to the parents who do not have internet
connection.
2. What is the schedule for collecting and aggregating data and
analyzing results?
Data-analysis has a very important place in technology plan. With data-analyzing the
school will check and see how technology plan works. Is it useful or not? For this
reason, technology plan committee will have a meeting on the last day of every month
and they will be able to make any changes on the technology pan if needed.