One of my final projects for my Educational Specialist
(Ed.S.) degree was to complete an Observer-Participant-Leader (OPL) record based
on the Essential Skills from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). There
are 10 essential skills based on educational technology leaders. The 10 skills
are:
1. Leadership & Vision
2. Strategic Planning
3. Ethics and Policies
4. Instructional Focus and Professional
Development
5. Team Building
6. Stakeholder Focus
7. Information Technology
8. Communication Systems
9. Business Management
10. Data Management
Observing
the CoSN’s Skill – Team Building and Staffing
During my Principal’s Candidacy semester, I monitored the hiring
process from beginning to end. I was able to observe administration from the
posting of the position, collecting resumes, interviewing candidates, and hiring
the position. During this semester I wrote a paper on the hiring process for my
school system.
Participating
in the CoSN’s Skill – Strategic Planning
Through my job as technology coordinator I participate
annually in the writing of the school level and district level technology plans.
These plans are submitted to the state and are a basis of state level funding. Through
this process parent, teacher, and student surveys are used to assess technology
needs. The surveys are also used to create goals for the next year.
Leader
in te CoSN’s Skill – Instructional Focus and Professional Development
In September 2018 I presented a professional development to 10
third grade teachers. Before the training I gave each of the teachers a survey
to gauge their knowledge of Google Applications. I asked the teachers the following
questions:
What
is your prior experience with Google Forms?
They answered on a 1-5 scale. 40% of them said they had a
3-4 level experience with Google Forms.
Do
you use Google Forms for quizzes?
60% of the teachers answered that sometimes or often use
Google Forms for quizzes.
Is
Google Forms a tool you would like to learn more about?
100% of the teachers answered yes, they would like to learn
more about Google Forms.
During October 2018 I conducted a professional development on
creating Google Sheets to track student data. Third grade teachers use this
training to create class sheets and merge them onto a master sheet for fluency progress
monitoring. Below you will find the presentation of the training.
Reference
Framework
of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO. Retrieved from
https://www.cosn.org
Johns, T. (2017). Personnel
Project. Unpublished manuscript
Johns, T. (2018). T
Johns Pd Training [Video file]. Retrieved from
https://drive.google.com/open?id=13QcdkACkD9UEN-ejnfDI1qUv0BjtqZtQ
Johns, T. (2018). Student
Data Tracking: Implementing Data Walls. Retrieved from
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1s-
3BtZ0KDSKFKXSe_MLfkSb0aCom42BK2ulCnY54DTI/edit?usp=sharing
Johns, T. (2018). Creating
a Google Form. Retrieved from
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VhS3QQUsbJGIVqgTFPCsXNvem_
iBigEGH76g783cx0s/edit?usp=sharing
iBigEGH76g783cx0s/edit?usp=sharing
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