STaR Chart

Allen Elementary

Plymouth-Canton Community Schools

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Allen Elementary
Plymouth/Canton

1. Hardware: High Tech
2. Connectivity: Low Tech
3. Content: Mid Tech
4. Professional Development: Mid Tech
5. Integration and Use: Low Tech

Based on an average of your responses, your school is at the Mid Tech level.


Mid Tech Educational Benefits:
  • Improve higher-order critical thinking with access to multimedia content
  • Master basic skills through drill and tutorial software
  • Greater information resources available for research and education from Internet and CD-ROM
  • Most students/teachers able to communicate with parents, experts, other students and teachers outside the school

Summary of your answers:
Questions: Your answers:
 

1

 

How many students per instructional computer?

 

(d) 1 student per instructional computer connected to the Internet

 

2

 

How long does it take to receive technical support?

 

(a) Takes several days

 

3

 

What percent of instructional rooms and administrative offices connected to the Internet?

 

(d) 100% or more of all instructional rooms and administrative offices are connected to the Internet

 

4

 

What is the quality of your school's connection to the Internet?

 

(d) Direct connectivity in all classrooms with adequate bandwidth to prevent delays

 

5

 

What is the use and availability of other forms of hardware technology?

 

(b) VCRs, cable TV, telephones, voicemail, projection devices, digital cameras, calculators

 

6

 

What forms do delivery and format of professional development take?

 

(a) Trainer-led instruction

 

7

 

What percent of the technology budget is allocated to professional development?

 

(a) Less than 10%

 

8

 

What is the understanding and use of digital content by educators?

 

(b) *100% at adaptation phases *Some begin to use with students

 

9

 

Software format:

 

(c) Manipulatable digital content and tools available commercially and on the Web

 

10

 

What is the role of the role of educator and degree to which digital content is integrated into instruction?

 

(c) * Teacher facilitated in local or distant classrooms *Fully integrate into instruction and use for research, planning, multimedia presentations and simulations, and to correspond and communicate

 

11

 

Do the students employ digital content to enhance learning?

 

(c) Use for research, to solve problems, to analyze data, to collaborate and to correspond with experts and to become content producers

 

12

 

What percentage of students are using digital content and what is their frequency of use?

 

(a) *50% or more *Weekly

 

13

 

What is the content budget allocation to purchase digital content?

 

(a) Use some supplemental instructional materials funds only

 

14

 

How does technology help student achievement and 21st century skills?

 

(d) Demonstrate improved student achievement and mastery of the full range of 21st century skills

 

15

 

What percent of your school or district aligns standards, curriculum, assessment and/or uses technology for continuous improvement?

 

(a) 25% align standards, curriculum and assessment using technology

 

16

 

What percent of your school or district integrates digital strategies into assessment and/or measures 21st century skills?

 

(a) *25% or more beginning to integrate digital strategies into assessment *Limited to use of fixed answer format

 

17

 

What percent of students has continuous access to technology?

 

(a) *Some students have access to technology to reinforce basic skills

 

18

 

How is research used?

 

(a) Schools inconsistently apply ad hoc research

 

19

 

How do administrators use technology?

 

(d) *Use technology to set policies, procedures, analyze performance, report and communicate with constituencies *Use technology to manage continuous improvement

 

20

 

How do parents and the community use technology?

 

(b) *Limited access to two-way communications via email, and privacy-protected web tools, e.g., to obtain individual attendance & assessment data

 

 
 
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