The mission of the Winters Technology Team is to encourage the effective integration of technology with teacher training and curriculum development to establish research-based instructional methods that can be widely implemented as best practices by our teachers providing the resources and equipment needed for each student's success!
The Winters ISD Technology Department is dedicated to helping all students become better prepared to meet the challenges of a more technological, diverse, and global society. Each learner is our paramount concern as we seek to create a learning environment where all children have the right and resources to progress and where all students are motivated to develop in both character and skills for a successful future.
OVERVIEW OF DISTRICT TECHNOLOGY INFUSION GOALS:
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To allow students K-12 to become more and more responsible for the use, care, and maintenance of equipment as they mature through the grades. Elementary students will be taught basic care of input and output devices. Junior high students will learn the computer system components and proper care of each. High school students will be taught to manage, maintain, and upgrade software and hardware.
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To more profusely integrate technology tools in the curriculum as students move through the grade levels. New technologies, new techniques, and new skills will accompany each grade level in a logical, sequential, technology-infused curriculum, beginning in Kindergarten with keyboarding skills.
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To commit Winters ISD in providing all students the most effective, current and real-world technologies so that all students may gain valuable, relevant, and marketable skills.
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To utilize technology in the district to meet student instructional needs and District administrative needs. Planning for technology will be driven by instructional objectives, student needs in achievement, curricular and instructional strategies, and administrative assessments for effectiveness. Hardware will never drive the Technology Plan.
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Inter-connectivity will be the priority of the Technology Plan. The ability to share resources, information, and ideas is one of the most important assets a school district can offer, second only to character development through a nurturing, caring spirit.