Position+and+Leadership+Goals


 * Position Goal-**

I have recently accepted the position of Technology Skills Specialist as Bussey Elementary in Aldine I.S.D., I will begin serving in this capacity starting August 4th. I plan to use my time as a Skills Specialist to improve upon the skills that I have gained during the course of this program, and to gain new ones. I view my new position as a Technology Skills Specialist as a bridge, I plan to use it as a means to continue advancing my career. After a year or two as a Skills Specialist, I plan to pursue opportunities in training and delivering professional developments or obtaining my Ph.D.


 * Leadership Goals-**

My goals as a leader are quite simple, help children learn, help teachers help their students. These will be my goals while I am at Bussey serving as the Technology Skills Specialist, these goals will not change should I move on to other positions over time. What may change is how I will pursue these goals.

As a Skills Specialist on an elementary campus there are specific things that I can do to help the students and their teachers, this is both directly and indirectly. I want to be a hands on leader, I want to spend time in the classrooms modeling technology lessons for teachers and students alike, not sitting in the computer lab like some people may choose to do. I already have several trainings in the planning stages that I hope to deliver this coming school year to help the staff be as up to date and creative with their technology use as possible. Just as important though not as easily seen, I will make it a priority to have every piece of equipment on campus up and working so that it can be used to help with student learning, not taking up space and collecting dust.

Once I have selected my next career path and move into a new position, my goals will not change, but my methods of achieving them will. As a technology trainer or as a professor at a university, the biggest change will be in the amount of people that I will be able to reach, therefore increasing the potential influence I can have on student success. Either career opportunity will provide with a venue to share what I have learned and the values that I have developed about what students need in order to be successful. It is my hope that I can influence the next generation of teachers to help the next generation of students to be as successful as possible.