#10: What principles should guide your approach for integrating technology into instruction (as an administrator)

As an administrator, if I expect my teachers to integrate technology into instruction, then I should model and implement technology as well.  By using technology with teachers, an administrator provides teachers, new and old, with a live example of how to effectively and efficiently use technology as a form of communication, in addition to a learning tool.  As an administrator, I use technology to communicate with teachers via email and/or Edmodo, to gather and sort data such as STAR Math and STAR Reading scores, and to progress monitor struggling students.  As a matter of fact on Monday, I will be training teachers on how to use the STAR Math and STAR Reading results to progress monitor students, and how to use the program to determine areas of weakness that can guide their instruction.  Being the RtI coordinator, I work with STAR results daily by identifying the Tier II and Tier III students who need more intervention strategies and instruction.  As an administrator, the STAR program is vital to my evaluation, but also for the teachers.  Every teacher will be evaluated by the STAR results, so by ensuring they are properly trained on how to use the results to guide instruction, teachers can integrate the technology into their instruction.