Technology Mission Statement

The mission of Treutlen County Schools’ technology program is to enhance teaching and learning through the use of technology, with the specific goal of improving student achievement of the QCC/GPS and, thereby, improving test scores. 

Technology Vision

The Treutlen County School System envisions schools with technology-rich classrooms inhabited by students who use computer-based technologies, telecommunications, and emerging technology to access information and enhance personal achievement.  The school personnel charged with the task of educating these students embrace technology and integrate it into daily classroom activities designed to improve student performance and at the same time address higher order thinking skills. The technology program’s purpose is to accomplish this mission and add substance to our vision by fulfilling the following duties:

 

• providing teachers and students access to the technology necessary for students to reach age-appropriate technology literacy levels in each grade
• ensuring that technology is maintained and updated as needed
• facilitating and/or delivering professional development activities that
  • assist teachers in developing pedagogical methods and strategies to integrate technology into instruction at all grade levels and in all QCC/GPS areas
  • address the technology literacy needs of teachers and support personnel
• providing tools that simplify teachers’ administrative responsibilities, giving them more time to plan for instruction

 

The technology program’s mission, vision, and resulting duties are founded on the following beliefs:

 

• Technology planning must be a collaborative effort among system-level personnel and should include the persons responsible for technology, staff development, curriculum, media, Title I, and special education, with input from school-level personnel.
  
• A technology initiative is ineffective without the support of system level and school level administrators who model appropriate utilization of technology in their professions.
• Parents must be well informed if the school system is to earn the support of parents and the general public.  Toward this end, all school system employees are responsible for maintaining two-way communication between parents and the schools.
• Having access to technology is of no consequence unless the people who have access to the technology have had ongoing training in how to use that technology and can apply that training to their day-to-day duties and responsibilities, consequently arriving at the conclusion that the use of that technology made performing their duties and responsibilities easier and/or faster than the methods used previously.
• It is the technology department’s job to support administrators, teachers, and support staff in their efforts to ensure that students are technologically literate; thus, no task is too menial or too difficult for a member of the department to address if it is in support of the school system’s and the technology program’s missions.

In order for the school district to be able to continue to make its computer network and Internet access available, all students must take responsibility for appropriate and lawful use of this access.  Students must understand that one student’s misuse of the network and Internet access may jeopardize the ability of all students to enjoy such access.  While the school’s teachers and other staff will make responsible efforts to supervise students’ use of the network and Internet access, they must have student cooperation in exercising and promoting responsible use of this access.

Included in the System Technology Plan and available for download below (entitled "Technology Plan Includes AUP") are the Acceptable Use and Internet Safety Guidelines of the school district and the Data Acquisition Site that provides Internet Access to the school district.  Upon reading the guidelines and signing and returning the Student’s Agreement as the students have been directed, each student will be given an opportunity to enjoy Internet access at school and is agreeing to follow the guidelines.  If a student is under 18 years of age, he or she must also have his or her parents or guardians read the guidelines and sign the agreement.  The school district will not provide access to any student who, if 18 or older fails to sign and submit the agreement to the school district as directed or, if under 18 does not return the agreement as directed with the signatures of the student and his/her parents or guardians.