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TF/TL Standard VIII

Leadership and Vision

TF/TL Standard VIII describes how leaders and facilitators will lead others in creating a vision and development of a plan to move the vision into a reality. Leaders and facilitators should motivate and inspire a shared vision among members and stakeholders of an organization. They should create goals and strategies to lead the members toward the vision. They should provide support along the entire way. Some of the technology vision challenges are that sometimes it is hard for stakeholders to imagine how technology can support educational goals. This makes the facilitators job a little harder. They must re-focus direction and provide data rich and research based proof for those who are resistant to the educational transformation. Facilitators and leaders must provide models to those stakeholders, and immerse them into technology rich environments. Leaders and facilitators should create a Long Term Technology Plan that includes a vision for the future of technology use and be focused on student learning, a description of what should be done for this implementation, and an action plan that includes goals and strategies. Finally, an evaluation plan should be enclosed as well. Exemplary technology plans should be focused on student learning. They should be grounded in research, aligned to content and strategies, comprehensive, simple and clear. They should be useful and achievable, measureable and logical. This is how any plan should be thought out. It would be a waste of time for a technology plan to not be thought out and have no purpose. Teachers and students would not learn or utilize it properly.

Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). //Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do//. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.