Texas STaR Chart :
Texas STaR Chart What is the Texas STaR Chart?
What is it used for?
What areas of technology does it cover?
Where are we as a campus?
Where do we go from here?
What is a STaR Chart? :
What is a STaR Chart? School Technology and Readiness Chart
This tool is an assessment for schools to rate their progress toward the Texas Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020.
Each teacher on the campus completes the survey which helps create a STaR Chart.
How can we use it? :
How can we use it? Administrators use the chart to help create technology goals for the campus.
Completing the survey helps teachers identify the areas of technology they need assistance in.
Professional development opportunities can be utilized from the chart.
What areas of technology does it cover? :
What areas of technology does it cover? There are 4 areas of study included on the Texas STaR Chart.
- Teaching and Learning
- Educator Preparation and Development
- Leadership, Administration, and Instructional Support
- Infrastructure for Technology
Each section is rated as one of these levels:
Early Tech
Developing Tech
Advanced Tech
Target Tech
Where are we as a campus? :
Where are we as a campus? Rating Levels
6-8 Early Tech
9-14 Developing Tech
15-20 Advanced Tech
21-24 Target Tech
Where do we go from here? :
Where do we go from here? From the graph you can see that in most areas we have shown improvement each year.
We still need to focus mostly on Teaching and Learning. This area includes tracking the frequency and patterns of usage of technology, making content area connections, implementation of the Technology Application TEKS, and participating in online learning.
In the area of Infrastructure for Technology we have not shown any growth. This means we need to work on the speediness of our technical support, creating more distance learning opportunities, and providing more devices for classroom technology use.