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Module 3: Workshop 4

School ICT readiness

 

 

There is limited research relating to the leadership and management of ICT in academic journals. However, a number of research projects by national organisations provide evidence that ICT can change the way school leaders manage their schools.

Key benefits:

  • better insight into how a school functions
  • improved evaluation of school performance
  • better use of school resources
  • better information for curriculum planning

How school principals can embed ICT within teaching, learning, management and planning:

  • develop a vision for the development and integration of ICT across the curriculum and promote this vision within and beyond the school
  • provide appropriate, sustained ICT professional development for all levels of staff
  • become an ICT learner along with staff and students
  • use management information for school improvement
  • provide staff with personal access to ICT.

What the research says about strategic leadership and management of ICT in schools, [online] http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/
research/wtrs_stratleaders.pdf


How well are teachers in your school supported in their use of ICT through continuing professional development, ready access to ICT resources and technical support?

 

2 hours 30 min  

Workshop question:

Can my school grow with ICT
 
Description
Resources
1

Knowledge management (45 min)

  • Listen to the trainer presentation (10 min)
  • Meet in groups of 4. Discuss what is strategic leadership and how knowledge about ICT can best be managed. (20 min)
    • share what you do in your school
    • identify achievable ways in which you can introduce knowledge management in your schools
  • Open your course workbook and summarise the most useful points from this discussion. (15 min)

 

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2

School readiness (75 min)

  • Listen to the trainer presentation (10 Min).
  • Work on your own. Use the school readiness self-assessment tool to develop an overiview of your school's readiness to use ICT effectively. Click in the checkbox that most accurately describes your school's circumstances (15 min).
  • Work in groups of three. Identify areas of possible weakness and discuss strategies for improving these areas. Record these possible actions by writing them in the fourth column of the self-assessment tool (35 min).
  • Open your course workbook and summariase the most useful points from this discussion (15 min).

 

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3

Reflection on change (30 min)

  • In conclusion, meet as a whole group and discuss what you think the story about the caterpillar is telling us.

Two caterpillars were sitting talking to each other when a butterfly flew past.

The one caterpillar looked at the other and said:
“You will never find me flying on one of those butterfly things.”
4

Community of principals

  • Join the community of principals online. Participate in the principals' discussion list. Discuss these and other issues with principals nationwide.

 

 

If you have not already joined Thutong and the principals' discussion list, go to http://www.thutong.org.za (online)

 

Related scenarios

Information leadership: Managing ICT resources

Issues regarding effective use of ICT resources

School ICT learning programmes

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