The Vidor Independent School District has many goals for the students to reach to be sucessful with their education. One of the main goals is to teach the students technology that wasnt even thought of before now and prepare them to be capable to achieve what hasnt been discovered yet. Some of the goals of VISD is as follows: 1)improve student achievement 2)fully integrate technology into teaching and learning 3)ensure that all students are technology literate.
The core competencies of technolgy go along with Level 1: Foundations, such as accepting use agreement, internet, email and word processor. Level 2: Intermediate, Presentation, Spreadsheets and Database. Level 3: Advanced, Teaching and Learning integration. These levels are very important to the base of teaching and developing a base to allow the students to develop with the use of the technology. While training the staff in these levels it is crucial that the teachers get all three levels of core competencies, while the instructional aides, board members and the other mis. staff (such as, transportation, warehouse, maint, and etc) recieve only the level 1 trainings. And then the staff that include the libraians, counslers, nurses, administrators and paraperfessionals recieve the Levels 1 and 2 core competencies. The goal to have this reached was to have all staff trained by 2010. The district did successfully complete this goal.
All assessments where completed as well as the goals that the district had set. With this being said the district has stated on their powerpoint containing information about thier technology plan, a statement that I liked well enough to add to my blog. "We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. by Margaret Mead"
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