Technology Standards for School Administrators
II. Learning and Teaching
Educational leaders ensure that curricular design, instructional strategies,
and learning environments integrate appropriate technologies to maximize
learning and teaching.
Performance Indicators
Educational leaders:
- identify, use, evaluate, and promote appropriate technologies to
enhance and support instruction and standards-based curriculum leading
to high levels of student achievement.
- facilitate and support collaborative technologyenriched learning environments
conducive to innovation for improved learning.
- provide for learner-centered environments that use technology to meet
the individual and diverse needs of learners.
- facilitate the use of technologies to support and enhance instructional
methods that develop higher-level thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving
skills.
- provide for and ensure that faculty and staff take advantage of quality
professional learning opportunities for improved learning and teaching
with technology.
Role-Specific Technology Leadership Tasks:
Superintendent
Superintendents who effectively lead integration of technology typically
perform the following tasks:
- provide equitable access for students and staff to technologies that
facilitate productivity and enhance learning.
- communicate expectations consistently for the use of technology to
increase student achievement.
- ensure that budget priorities reflect a focus on technology and its
relationships to enhanced learning and teaching.
District Program Director
District program directors who effectively lead integration of technology
typically perform the following tasks:
- participate in developing and providing electronic resources that
support improved learning for program participants.
- provide rich and effective staff development opportunities and ongoing
support that promote the use of technology to enhance program initiatives
and activities.
- ensure that program curricula and services embrace changes brought
about by the proliferation of technology within society.
Principal
Principals who effectively lead integration of technology typically
perform the following tasks:
- assist teachers in using technology to access, analyze, and interpret
student performance data, and in using results to appropriately design,
assess, and modify student instruction.
- collaboratively design, implement, support, and participate in professional
development for all instructional staff that institutionalizes effective
integration of technology for improved student learning.
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Collaborative and may not be altered without written permission.
The following notice must accompany reproduction of these standards: “This
material was originally produced as a project of the Technology Standards
for School Administrators Collaborative.”
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