5.1 Needs Assessment
Candidates conduct needs assessments to determine school-wide, faculty, grade-level, and subject area strengths and weaknesses to inform the content and delivery of technology-based professional learning programs.
Artifact: SWOT and Action Plan
Reflection:
In ITEC 7400, a strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) analysis was created for my school as well as an action plan that addressed some of the weaknesses discovered through the analysis. This artifact shows mastery of the needs assessment element because the SWOT analysis identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the school and follows it up with an action plan that uses technology to build up the weaknesses into strengths.
Through the creation of this artifact, I learned a great deal about looking at a school in whole and then slowly break it down to see the different levels. Being able to look at the big picture and develop a plan to improve the overall quality of the school is something every technology facilitator should know how to do. If I could change something with this artifact, I would actually implement the action plan. Due to time, the action plan was never implemented, but that does not mean the plan cannot be re-evaluated and implemented 2 years after its creation. The SWOT and action plan impacts school improvement, faculty development, and student learning because it identifies what the school needs to fix, suggests a plan for faculty development, which in turn improves the quality of student learning. This impact can be assessed by completing another SWOT analysis to see if the weaknesses were improved upon.
In ITEC 7400, a strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) analysis was created for my school as well as an action plan that addressed some of the weaknesses discovered through the analysis. This artifact shows mastery of the needs assessment element because the SWOT analysis identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the school and follows it up with an action plan that uses technology to build up the weaknesses into strengths.
Through the creation of this artifact, I learned a great deal about looking at a school in whole and then slowly break it down to see the different levels. Being able to look at the big picture and develop a plan to improve the overall quality of the school is something every technology facilitator should know how to do. If I could change something with this artifact, I would actually implement the action plan. Due to time, the action plan was never implemented, but that does not mean the plan cannot be re-evaluated and implemented 2 years after its creation. The SWOT and action plan impacts school improvement, faculty development, and student learning because it identifies what the school needs to fix, suggests a plan for faculty development, which in turn improves the quality of student learning. This impact can be assessed by completing another SWOT analysis to see if the weaknesses were improved upon.