Position+and+Professional+Goal+Statements

=Position and Professional Goal Statements=

1. I hope to be a Technology Facilitator for a specific campus (as opposed to a district-wide facilitator). While I realize that a district-wide position would a) pay more, and b) give me opportunity to do the greatest amount of "good", it will also divorce me from the individual school cultures that I think are so important. I teach in a large district and don't believe that using a one-size-fits-all approach to technology implementation is the way to go. I would prefer to work with a smaller group of people on an individual campus so that the group of teachers responsible for implementing technology in their classrooms can be assisted directly by me.

2. I want to lead in this way because I believe that I work well with people. I'm particularly aware of the temptation to push teachers further than they are ready to go and I think this will be a strength of mine going forward. Teachers need to be assessed and assisted where they are, not where we'd like them to be. This may sound trivial, but top-down management approaches tend to breed resentment in my experience. On a personal level, I look forward to the challenge of always learning new things, staying abreast of current changes and available technologies for educators and students. This relates to my professional development goal of learning a programming language. Leadership in a technology based field will give me an opportunity to apply what I'm learning in my private studies.