purpose

Purpose:
The purpose of this staff development plan is to make sure that each teacher of DeLaSalle Education Center High School has been introduced to various effective and proven technology resources out there for high school students. Once they have been introduced to the various software and hardware, they must have the opportunity to be trained in those areas to effectively make use of the technolgy and covey that infomation effectively to their students. All staff development workshops will be scheduled on Wednesdays - half days for students only, and written in staff development days for teachers. The first two hour staff development workshops will give teachers a deep look at various software out there. From those presentations, they will decided on the software packages appropriate for the school as a whole, and those packages appropriate for classroom use. The next two meetings will be devoted to in dept looks at computer hardware, and from those presentaions, teachers will decide what hardware will meet students needs the most.