Accessing educators’ technology leadership knowledge and skills is essential to knowing what teachers are able to do in their classroom. According to the Texas STaR Chart, “In order to continue improvements in teaching and learning in Texas, educators must assure that the knowledge and skills students learn match the knowledge and skills needed to live and work in the 21st Century.” If we do not access their skills there is no possible way of knowing what they know and how they can and do use technology in a classroom. A teacher may have a projector, iPods, and computers; but, if they are not using them, then they are of no educational value to the students. By accessing this teacher through tools such as the STaR, we learn what that teacher is capable of doing in the classroom, what tools they actually use in their classroom and what tools they need training on in order to help students work in the 21st Century. Cons for using an assessment like this, would be that some teachers and students do not take time to read the questions or answer them accurately.
By accessing the students’ knowledge and skills we learn how far they have come as well as what we, as teachers, have guided and need to guide them in. Through accessing the student and finding out what they need we can better prepare our teachers for teaching them.
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