Program Goals in Support of Education Reform
The Lincoln Technology Committee has set forth the following goals in the areas of administration and management, communications and information access, and instruction and curriculum.
Administrative and Management Goals
- Administrators must use technology to support management needs.
- Administrators must support mission and goals set forth in the Technology Plan with appropriate resources.
- Administrators must provide professional development opportunitites.
- Administrators must ensure equity (in all areas).
- Administrators must gather data, disseminate and interpret data regarding use of technology at Lincoln Community School.
- Administrators must keep abreast of changes and innovation in technology.
- Administrators must model the appropriate use of technology.
- Administrators must serve as the liason between the School Board and the Lincoln community.
- Administration must ensure community access to technology at Lincoln Community School.
- Administration must provide oversite to ensure appropiate and legal use of educationally sound technology.
Communication and Information Access Goals
- Lincoln Community School must create a local area network to allow for greater resource sharing within the building.
- Lincoln Community School must provide telecommunications access to all instructional areas within the building.
- Lincoln Community School must provide adequate telephone lines for voice and data communications.
- Access to telecommunications resources must be equitably distributed to all teachers and students.
- Lincoln residents must have access to Internet resources available at Lincoln Community School.
Instructional and Curricular Goals
- Immediate Goals
- Develop and complete a technology plan which will facilitate technology integration into the curriculum.
- Provide software and hardware appropriate to allow the advancement of the technology plan.
- Short Term Goals
- Introduce a technology plan to teachers and provide necessary training needed to provide teachers a level of confidence that would stimulate the integration of technology into their lesson plans.
- Introduce students to technology and its uses following the ANESU Technology Matrix as a guideline.
- Intermediate Goals
- Begin using technology in the classrooms, again using the matrix developed in the District Technology Plan, Technology Curriculum Strand.
- Provide continuity, training and support for teachers and support staff to keep up with changing technology.
- Long Term Goals
- Provide technology to all students, K-6, through curricula constantly being updated to utilize new technology as it becomes available.
Staff Competency Goals
- Immediate Goals
- Encourage support staff to enhance their knowlegde of information technology. This could happen through several avenues such as: after school courses and/or workshops in the district, individual sessions with professional staff or our district technology coordinator.
- Increase knowledge of information access in the following areas: research tools on CD-ROM such as encyclopedias, and multimedia applications.
- Long Term Goals
- Achieve proficiency in multimedia programs and authoring, expand knowledge to video technologies, use and apply desktop publishing programs and techniques.
Last Revised: 10/7/97