Council members recommended incorporating this goal into our state plan. The plan should promote work with teachers, curriculum committees, media specialists, curriculum coordinators, integration specialists. Each group requires a different type of professional development focused on how they can acquire knowledge, skills, and awareness of the technology transformation taking place. The plan should more clearly articulate the efforts being made to enhance teacher preparation programs. The state's present certification system requires extensive upgrades to improve its efficiency.
Technology can enable the system to better handle the volume and speed of transactions.
The plan should support the creation of more specific, performance based, technology standards for educators. New standards should clearly address social, legal, ethical, and human issues. The plan should support incentives for teachers to use technology. All students will have technology and information literacy skills. Helping districts to create ILS plans by grade, similar to curriculum frameworks, would be helpful.