Standard 4: Advocacy and Leadership
Candidates advocate for dynamic school library programs and positive learning environments that focus on student learning and achievement by collaborating and connecting with teachers, administrators, librarians, and the community. Candidates are committed to continuous learning and professional growth and lead professional development activities for other educators. Candidates provide leadership by articulating ways in which school libraries contribute to student achievement.
Candidates advocate for dynamic school library programs and positive learning environments that focus on student learning and achievement by collaborating and connecting with teachers, administrators, librarians, and the community. Candidates are committed to continuous learning and professional growth and lead professional development activities for other educators. Candidates provide leadership by articulating ways in which school libraries contribute to student achievement.
FRIT 7232 Technology Advocate
In FRIT 7232, Visionary Leadership, I had to choose a particular technology and then create a presentation to promote the use of that technology in the classroom. I chose MobyMax.com, a personalized learning platform for students to use to not only fill in gaps in learning but to also excel them. I had been using this online platform with my own students and thought it would be a good choice for this advocacy assignment. I used this for FRIT 7232 and then sent the presentation to my administrator. He then spoke briefly with me about it and ordered a school-wide license for other teachers to use it. This project helped me learn how to become an advocate for technology but also how to put together a screencast that I could easily disseminate for quicker acceptance.
I believe that the experience in making this advocacy presentation allowed me to make other videos along the way for my school that were very beneficial to the staff and educators there. I chose to place this under this standard because it did allow me to facilitate a shared vision for the use of technology in my school with other educators. I was also able to recommend this program and technology innovation to them as a desire to raise student achievement.
I believe that the experience in making this advocacy presentation allowed me to make other videos along the way for my school that were very beneficial to the staff and educators there. I chose to place this under this standard because it did allow me to facilitate a shared vision for the use of technology in my school with other educators. I was also able to recommend this program and technology innovation to them as a desire to raise student achievement.
FRIT 7232 Technology Plan Evaluation
Before FRIT 7232, Visionary Leadership, I had never read over a technology plan. During this module, my team had to not only read a technology plan (Pickens County School District) but had to evaluate it. To properly evaluate the plan, we had to first find creditable resources to use in the evaluation. We then attached those resources as an annotated list to show the resource and why it was used. Then we developed a rubric for the evaluation. Using those two tools during the evaluation allowed us the means to then provide recommendations for improvement. During this module, I learned quite a bit about what a technology plan should discuss. It allowed me to be more familiar with them and to begin looking at my own county’s plan. I then began helping my individual school and its technology committee developing a 3-year technology plan. Again, this was one of those projects that I could take directly into practice.
This project encompasses all the elements of Standard 4. This one project was very intense and required us to use a shared vision, look deeper into strategic planning, and discuss if the funding elements were used correctly and documented. In the end we had to recommend any changes that we felt did not match up to a comprehensive technology plan. This one project opened my eyes to what was really needed in order to be not only a visionary leader but what must be done to attend to all stakeholders.
This project encompasses all the elements of Standard 4. This one project was very intense and required us to use a shared vision, look deeper into strategic planning, and discuss if the funding elements were used correctly and documented. In the end we had to recommend any changes that we felt did not match up to a comprehensive technology plan. This one project opened my eyes to what was really needed in order to be not only a visionary leader but what must be done to attend to all stakeholders.
FRIT 7232 Technology Plan Evaluation by Lee McFatridge on Scribd
FRIT 7232 Training Grant Proposal
This FRIT 7232 module had my team collectively work on a professional development grant to benefit the teachers and their students at a fictional high school in Georgia, Visionary Future High. The technology to use as the focus for our grant proposal was Google Apps for Education. I initially came up with our objective and the others thought this would be a good idea. After finalizing that objective, we came up with S.M.A.R.T. goals and a timeline for the professional development. I developed a technology survey and had teachers from my school complete it so we could use that data in the proposal as well as since this was a fictional school. I learned quite a bit about putting together a grant proposal within this module. I realized that when grant writing like this, it really is best to collaborate with others to help lighten the load. One person could certainly take on this task but the collaboration of others made it more streamline and easier to control.