Role of Principal
Implementation and Monitoring

Once the principal has completed the groundwork for improvement in technology integration, he or she can ensure its implementation in several ways. First, to ensure that teachers are completing on-line professional development on my campus, the principal can monitor Infosource Learning on-line logs which show what courses are in progress. To explain, our school is currently contracting this service to allow teachers 24/7 on-line technology training. Teachers take a pre-test in each area, and the results determine the training the individual teacher requires. This on-line learning is logged, and administrators can monitor activity. Secondly, teachers are in the process of being trained to create a web-page within the school’s website. This website can be easily monitored to check lesson planning, communications of students’ learning, and it could even showcase use of technology in the classroom. In addition, principals are required to do walk-throughs, and when there is more visibility in classrooms, the principal can determine whether or not the plan is being implemented and whether or not a transition to constructivist learning is occurring. In addition, the principal should ask teachers to share plans and outcomes in a shared computer files that can be accessed by teachers and administrators. Other ways of monitoring would be to ask to see or display student work using technology, and discussing the ongoing plan with teachers, asking how they are progressing and listening to input.
This will be new learning for a lot of teachers, but to move from developing technology as reported by the STaR Chart to advanced, we will need to work with each other giving support and understanding along the way.