Understanding The Texas S Ta R Chart

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Understanding The Texas S Ta R Chart

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Texas Star Chart

The Teas STaR Chart was created to help schools evaluate technology in schools. With schools moving to education 2020, there has to be a move within the school districts to improve technology. The area hat I would like to focus on is Infrastructure for Technology. In Mabank since 2006 this has been our biggest area of improvement. We went from an 11 of a possible 24 points to 18 of 24 in three short years. In our school we have many computers that are accessible by the students. We promote a 4:1 ratio of computers to students. This has been improved by the creation of a new computer lab and the addition of computers in classrooms. Another strong point about our school is that we have computer access in every room that school is taught. This is an advantage to the teachers as well as the students. Also in each classroom we have a drop down projector that is linked to the computer so that you may show slide shows, videos, or anything else that might aid in the educational process. At Mabank we have a technology supervisor at each campus. At the high school she is always available to help out and usually gets things fixed the same day as request. I feel that we have made great strides in technology at Mabank. But I also feel that technology is something that you cannot rest on. It is ever changing and new ideas are put out every day. It is easy to move from an advanced school to a developing school within the year.

TEKS K-2

After looking at the TEKS for students in the Kindergarten it is apparent that things are changing in education on all levels. Students are required to do things in kindergarten that I did in the 8th grade. We are preparing our students ever earlier to be dependent upon technology for education. This I believe is an effort to create learners that will continue to learn after high school. Also this will eventually help our economy since we have moved to a global market with most transactions taking place through the internet.

Long range plan breakdown

After breaking down the long range plan. It is eveident that we as teachers need to prepare ourselves for the 21st Century learner. We need to plan to educate ourselves in the areas of Education 2020. We need to understand that the days of teaching all kids the same out of textbook are over. We need to make our information more accessable to the students so that they can continue thier education passed the walls of a high school.

Week 1 Assignment

This is my first time to ever create a blog. I have always that blogs were for people who either didn't have anybody to share their ideas with or could tell them to a real person. I have learned through this activity that it is a great way to get the news out. In the first technology survey that we took, I did very well I knew what many of the features that were mentioned were and how to use them. At our school we are often required to make power point presentations to teach lessons. We are also give a number of multimedia tools to help students learn the presented material. I am also a coach and we are constantly required to make spreadsheets to keep up with player stats, make workouts, and help student athletes with recruiting. In the SETDA Teacher Survey, I learned that we are doing a good job of trying to create the 21st century learner. We could always do better but where we are is a great starting point. As far as the assignment I feel that this was a good way to see if we could follow instructions. It was not as complicated as I first thought that it would be.