2000 School Technology Profile Summary
as of 03/07/2001
Professional Development

Part 1 - Professional Development  
     Totals
1. Do teachers in your school have individualized professional development plans?  
  A. Yes 514
  B. No 1381
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2. What is the focus of most of your instructional technology staff development  
  A. Little or no instructional technology staff development is currently present. 128
  B. How to use basic technology tools and applications. (i.e. word processors, spreadsheets, grading programs, productivity applications, etc.) 206
  C. How to use basic technology tools and applications and introduction to the Internet. 720
  D. How to use and integrate technology into the curriculum, use technology for classroom management, and how to identify and use grade, age, and subject specific technology tools. 751
  E. Training is customized to the needs of the individual teacher. The training focuses on how to meet the special, individual needs of each student and how to identify, use and evaluate new learning activities, lesson plans, and student assessment methodologies 90
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3. What is the structure of your instructional technology staff development ?  
  A. Little or no instructional technology staff development is currently present. 112
  B. Training occurs in isolated, short, "stand-alone" sessions 576
  C. Training occurs in partial day or full-day, "stand-alone" sessions. 791
  D. Training occurs at regular, consistent sessions that are inter-related in a long range plan. 320
  E. Delivery of instruction is mostly one-on-one and customized to the needs of the individual teacher. Long term professional development is developed with teacher participation and is institutionalized. 95
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4. What percentage of teachers in your school participate in instructional technology staff development more than 12 hours per year?  
  A. Less than 20% 960
  B. 21 - 40% 364
  C. 41 - 60% 207
  D. 61 - 80% 103
  E. 81 - 100% 261
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5. How would the majority of the teachers evaluate the effectiveness of the training received?  
  A. Highly effective 514
  B. Somewhat effective 1216
  C. Somewhat ineffective 131
  D. Not at all effective 30
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6. Does your school provide teachers with regularly scheduled, free time for learning and integrating technology into the curriculum?  
  A. Yes 336
  B. No 1559
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7. What type of technology-related professional development do you provide to your teachers?
      Please check all that apply. (Numbers in RED are No Responses)
 
  A. multi-day courses run by public or private technology training organizations 808
2350
  B. on-site visits to technology-using classrooms 753
2405
  C. on-line distance learning professional development courses 336
2822
  D. live interactive videoconferencing 195
2963
  E. in-school one-on-one professional mentoring on a consistent or just-in-time basis 1141
2017
  F. collaborative team-teaching opportunities with technology proficient instructors 851
2307
     
Part 2 - Instructor Skill Levels  
     
1. At what stage of technology-curriculum integration are your teachers ?  
  A. Virtually all are at Entry level 176
  B. Most are at the Entry level and some at the Adoption level 577
  C. Some teachers at Entry level, most at Adoption level, and a few at Appropriation level 803
  D. Most teachers at the Appropriation level, some teachers at the Adoption level, a few at the Entry level  304
  E. Most teachers at the Appropriation level and a few teachers at the Invention level 35
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2. What is the level of technology-curriculum integration that is most common in the majority of your classrooms?  
  A. Technology is rarely used. 81
  B. Teachers use basic technology tools and applications. (i.e. word processors, spreadsheets, grading programs, productivity applications, etc.) Students use of technology is primarily a reward for finished work or to practice things they already know. 348
  C. Technology is sometimes used to support a lesson and technology is sometimes used for supplemental learning 931
  D. Teachers often consider available technology tools when planning lessons. Student technology use involves information gathering, organizing, and publishing in a variety of media. 512
  E. Technology has been fully integrated into the daily instructional life of the teacher and the student and has fundamentally changed the process of teaching and learning in that classroom. 23
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3. What percentage of teachers in your school can be classified as frequent users of technology?  
  A. Less than 10% 33
  B. 10 - 25% 309
  C. 25 - 50% 518
  D. 50 - 75% 542
  E. More than 75% 493
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4. Of those who are frequent users of technology, how long has the majority been using it?  
  A. 0-3 months 2
  B. 3 months-2 years 464
  C. 2-3 years 674
  D. over three years 755
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