Assignment 2: Hiring Three Technology Coordinators

Patrick Fernandez
New Jersey City University
EDTC 815: Advanced Administration & Supervision of Tech
Fall 2023
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JOB POSTING #1

Position: Elementary School Tech Coordinator

Reports To: School Administrators
Job Goal: Maintain and enhance the use of technology among the school community to align
the school's mission statement.

Description: The tech coordinator is to oversee the use of technology among the school
community to include both physical and digital learning spaces utilized by its members. It is
essential that the tech coordinator maintain existing hardware and software currently in use.
While the tech coordinator must also research and integrate the latest technologies. To align
with the school’s mission, the tech coordinator must also ensure that all school members
including staff, students and stakeholders are provided the proper knowledge and suitable
environment to use technology to its full potential.

Responsibilities:
● Maintains existing district technology
● Troubleshoot and resolve any hardware or software issues
● Collaborate with school administrators and district technology department in
curriculum design
● Research latest technological trends to integrate ones that will enhance the school
community
● Train and assist new staff members to ensure they utilize existing technologies
● Collaborate and offer professional development opportunities to staff members to
enhance use of technology in the curriculum
● Ensure that staff members, students and school community are familiar with netiquette
and proper digital citizenship
● Maintain the school webpage and social media
● Demonstrate professionalism and proper work ethic

Evaluations:
Performance will be based in accordance with standards set by the district (see below). As
well as those set forth by the ISTE.
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JOB POSTING #2

Position: Middle School Tech Coordinator

Reports To: School Administrators
Job Goal: Maintain and enhance the use of technology among the school community to align
the school's mission statement.

Description: The tech coordinator is to oversee the use of technology among the school
community to include both physical and digital learning spaces utilized by its members. It is
essential that the tech coordinator maintain existing hardware and software currently in use.
While the tech coordinator must also research and integrate the latest technologies. To align
with the school’s mission, the tech coordinator must also ensure that all school members
including staff, students and stakeholders are provided the proper knowledge and suitable
environment to use technology to its full potential.

Responsibilities:
● Maintain existing district technology
● Troubleshoot and resolve any hardware or software issues
● Collaborate with school administrators and district technology department in
curriculum design
● Meet with various content departments to ensure the use of tech is personalized to all
content areas
● Research latest technological trends to integrate ones that will enhance the school
community and benefit various content areas and subjects
● Train and assist new staff members to ensure they utilize existing technologies
● Collaborate and offer professional development opportunities to staff members to
enhance use of technology in the curriculum
● Ensure that staff members, students and school community are familiar with netiquette
and proper digital citizenship
● Oversee and assist the administration of district, state and federal testing
● Maintain the school webpage and social media
● Demonstrate professionalism and proper work ethic

Evaluations:
Performance will be based in accordance with standards set by the district (see below). As
well as those set forth by the ISTE.
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JOB POSTING #3

Position: High School Tech Coordinator

Reports To: School Administrators
Job Goal: Maintain and enhance the use of technology among the school community to align
the school's mission statement.

Description: The tech coordinator is to oversee the use of technology among the school
community to include both physical and digital learning spaces utilized by its members. It is
essential that the tech coordinator maintain existing hardware and software currently in use.
While the tech coordinator must also research and integrate the latest technologies. To align
with the school’s mission, the tech coordinator must also ensure that all school members
including staff, students and stakeholders are provided the proper knowledge and suitable
environment to use technology to its full potential.

Responsibilities:
● Maintain existing district technology
● Troubleshoot and resolve any hardware or software issues
● Collaborate with school administrators and district technology department in
curriculum design
● Meet with various content departments to ensure the use of tech is personalized to all
content areas
● Research latest technological trends to integrate ones that will enhance the school
community and benefit various content areas and subjects
● Train and assist new staff members to ensure they utilize existing technologies
● Collaborate and offer professional development opportunities to staff members to
enhance use of technology in the curriculum
● Ensure that staff members, students and school community are familiar with netiquette
and proper digital citizenship
● Oversee and assist the administration of district, state and federal testing
● Evaluate and report tech data to administration monthly
● Maintain the school webpage and social media
● Manage the tech club
● Demonstrate professionalism and proper work ethic

Evaluations:
Performance will be based in accordance with standards set by the district (see below). As
well as those set forth by the ISTE.
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District Evaluation Rubric for Tech Coordinator Role:

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Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Excellent

Maintenance & -Basic -School -School -School

Accessibility infrastructure infrastructure is infrastructure is infrastructure is
needs are not sound updated and allow creating a positive
being meet in the -Digital tools and for a positive digital digital experience
school resources are experience -The latest digital
-Lack of found but difficult -Digital tools and tools and
available digital to access resources are resources are
tools or -Troubleshooting easily accessible used by school
resources and unresolved -Little members
-Abundance of issues are troubleshooting or -Lack of
troubleshooting handled with unresolved issues troubleshooting or
and unresolved time some delay unresolved issues
issues

Integration/ -Lack of -Technology and -Technology and -Technology and

Implementation technology in digital tools are digital learning tools digital learning
school used with some are a component of tools are a major
curriculum enhancement to improved student component of
-Lack of student outcomes improved student
technology in outcomes -Technology and outcomes
everyday use -Technology and digital tools are a -Technology and
-Lack of PD or digital tools aid component of staff digital learning
workshops for staff development tools are a major
staff available development -PD and workshops component of
with some are held regularly improved staff
success development
-PD and -PD and
workshops are workshops are
held often requested
and frequently
held

Knowledge -Tech -Tech -Tech coordinator -Tech coordinator

coordinator is not coordinator is has insight into the is consistently
aware of latest aware of some latest trends in tech learning latest
trends in tech outdated trends and education trends in tech and
and education in tech and -Tech coordinator education
education applies trends -Tech coordinator
learned regularly applies trends of
into role learned frequently
into role
-Tech coordinator
creates new tech
trends in their role

School Culture -Tech -Tech -Tech coordinator -Tech coordinator

coordinator has coordinator has promotes a positive creates a positive
little influence in some influence culture & climate for culture & climate
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promoting a in creating a the use of tech for the use of tech

positive culture & positive culture & -Members of the -Members of the
climate for the climate for the school community school community
use of use of tech have digital literacy use digital literacy
technology skills skills to enhance
-Members of the learning
school community -Members of the
are aware of the school community
importance of actively display
digital citizenship proper digital
and netiquette citizenship and
netiquette

Professionalism -Tech -Tech -Tech coordinator -Tech coordinator

coordinator is coordinator adheres to school adheres to school
often late follows most policy at all times policy at all times
-Has disregard school -Tech coordinator -Tech coordinator
for school procedures follows all rules and follows all rules
procedures -Complies with regulations and regulations
-Does not most rules and -Tech coordinator
engage in staff regulations but actively engages
and school only participates with all school and
meetings passively district events
-Tech coordinator
is a role model to
all in the school
community