Educational Preparation and Development is one of the four areas of the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020. Today Texas is faced with a sense of urgency to become skilled in technology. Continuous professional learning is key. All educators must exit preparation programs knowing how to use technology. They must also learn how to effectively facilitate and manage the 21st Century learner. In order to do so, professional development must support the move from the traditional schooling to the 21st Century learning. Teachers will need to understand the importance of learning technology.

At the campus that I work at we have slightly progressed in this area. I reviewed our campus STaR chart for three separate school years 2006-07, 2007-08, and 2008-09. In the 2006-07 school year our total was 11 in this area, which says we are in the developing tech. Subsequent years were with totals of 12. These totals were still low for the district. I looked at other schools in our district and found that we as a campus were behind. I would like to do more in depth research on why this is occurring. I believe one of the factors is the campus size.



The developing tech campus is one that teachers use technology to present information to students, to model teacher directed activities, ad to complete administrative functions. Students have regular weekly access to desktop computers, laptops, or handheld devices in the classroom, library, or labs. The teacher has created two or more online lessons that include TEKS aligned content. The teacher on this campus receives professional development on how to integrate technology into the curriculum.


As a whole our district was in line with the states averages in this area. The state has continued in growth each of the years as did our campus. Overall, Texas schools are all developing tech campuses.