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STaR Chart Information
The STaR Chart can help any school or community answer three critical questions: - Is your school using technology effectively to ensure the best possible teaching and learning?
- What is your school’s current education technology profile?
- What areas should your school focus on to improve its level of technology integration?
How the STaR Chart is Being Used Here are some of the ways the STaR Chart is being used to help schools: - Setting benchmarks and goals. Schools, districts and states have used the STaR Chart to identify current education technology profiles, establish goals, and monitor progress.
- Applying for grants. The STaR Chart has helped schools and school districts identify their education technology needs as they apply for grants.
- Determining funding priorities. Education administrators and policymakers have used the STaR Chart to determine where to allocated funds.
- Creating individualized assessment tools. Education administrators and policymakers have used the STaR Chart as the basis for state-wide technology assessments.
Three Steps to Using the Interactive STaR Chart Integrating technology into the process of teaching and learning is complicated. It involves many essential elements such as the hardware and software present, the content available, the level of teacher professional development, and the degree of integration and use. In three easy steps, the Interactive STaR Chart can help determine where your school is today and where you want it to be tomorrow: Step 1: Answer the following series of multiple choice questions. Step 2: Print your STaR Assessment. Step 3: Use your findings to work with staff, administrators, technology director, school board members, and community leaders to develop a strategic plan for improving the integration of technology in your school. Want to know more about STaR Chart? www.tea.state.tx.us/starchart Email Rosalea.McAnally@region16.net for your Password to begin entering your data.
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