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The questions can be answered in relation to whichever
stage or stage(s)
you find your educators 'at' with regard to ICT use. Write any other
considerations
that you feel will be important when supporting educators at your
school with their
ICT-use and ICT-learning in your e-diary.
When thinking of the developmental (entry) stage,
ask yourself the following questions:
Overcoming Obstacles/Resistances
| What obstacles will need to be
overcome? Are educator attitudes, for example, a barrier to
effective ICT integration at the school? |
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| What strategies will you rely
on to overcome obstacles? |
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Training Support
| What kind of training would provide
educators with the skills appropriate to this stage? |
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| What would you expect educators
to do with this training at this level? In class? For admin?
How will this training be done? |
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| Will educators, for example,
receive a personal copy of the Educators' Network CD to work
with? Will computers be dedicated for staff use? |
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| What will you do at the school
to ensure that training takes place? Will you block time for
educators to be able to work with the CD modules, for e.g.?
Will there be a timetable? What will the frequency of training
be? |
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| Will it be continuous? Once weekly?
etc. |
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| How much of the staff development
budget will be allocated towards ICT-related training? |
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| What support materials will be
needed for this? |
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Opportunities for Collaboration,
Discussion and Progression
| How will you ensure that educators
have sufficient time to problem-solve and discuss the ways in
which they are integrating ICT use in the classroom? Will time
be blocked off for this? |
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| What kind of teams will you promote
at the school to ensure that ICT use is relevant for each learning
area at the school? |
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| How as a leader will you model
and support these processes? What kinds of things will you do
to ensure that development is sustained? |
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| What kinds of incentives will
there be for educators to develop to the next stage of ICT use?
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| By when do you plan that these
processes will be taking place at the school? |
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| What other things will you do
at the school to encourage continuous developmental progression? |
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Ensuring that expertise in each learning
area is created to benefit
both learner and educator
| Will certain educators be given
priority training? |
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| This question should be answered
in relation to the unique position of your own school. For example,
if literacy and/or maths and science results are down, these
learning areas may be good starting points for focused training.
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| How will you ensure that digital
content that has been used in lessons will not be lost?In other
words, how will concrete examples of useful lessons constructed
and/or used by educators at your school not be lost, but made
accessible to other educators? |
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| Will you create expertise only
in your school or will you encourage educators to collaborate
with others outside of the school? If so, what mechanisms and/or
support will you put in place to ensure that this is possible?
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