KILGORETECH

Please answer the following questions as accurately as possible.

1. Observations:

a. Is the classroom arranged for teacher-centered or student-centered activities?
b. Is there technology and/or connectivity in the room?

2. Collective Vision:

a. If you could do what you wanted in combining technology and learning for
students, what would you do?
b. How would you know you had been successful?
c. What are your best hopes for technology and learning?
d. What are your worst fears for technology and learning?

3. Staff Development:

a. How do you learn about technology?
b. What is your best learning experience with technology?
c. What supports your learning?
d. What needs to work better?
e. What incentives are offered to encourage teacher participation in
additional training opportunities?
f. What training opportunities have you participated in this past year?

4. Instructional Practices & Student Performance:

a. How do students use technology for their class work?
b. What are the top three pieces of student software you use?
c. What is the most valuable learning task your students have performed using technology?
d. What were the standards / learning objectives for the described task?
e. How did you decide what to study? Do students mostly work by themselves or
in groups? What are you doing during these projects? How do you know students
have been successful?
f. What assessment strategies / tools were used to evaluate the learning?
g. In what ways did technology add value to the learning task?
h. What worked? Could have worked better? Any surprises?
i. In what ways do you work with the school’s librarian?

5. Equitable Learning Opportunities:

a. Are there any technology experiences or practices provided for ALL students
at this grade?

6. Instructional Assessment & Evaluation:

a. In what ways are you able to know / communicate how technology has made a
difference for your students?
b. In what way does technology play a role in assessment? (i.e. electronic portfolios,
video report cards, on-line testing)
c. How has technology changed your assessment practices?

7. Closing:

a. What is the best “advice” you can give to yourself for moving
technology/learning ahead in a way that will make more progress for all students?
b. Advice to the school?