What is Four in Balance? - PDST
What is Four in Balance? - PDST
What is Four in Balance? - PDST
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8 - Collaboration and leadershipLeadership goalsMaterial factorsPriorityHuman factors100806057636040433740200PRIMSECVETFigure 8.6: School managers’ priorities for achiev<strong>in</strong>g ICT goals (TNS NIPO, 2010)8.4 Summary• One out of three teachers works <strong>in</strong> a team that has agreed to use ICT forparticular subjects and to use it <strong>in</strong> a certa<strong>in</strong> way. Two thirds of teacherssay that ICT use <strong>is</strong> a matter of personal preference, and that there areno shared (school-wide) goals.• Approximately eight out of ten schools have an ICT policy plan. Abouthalf of these schools actually implement th<strong>is</strong> plan. Many policy planshave not been updated, and schools evidently f<strong>in</strong>d it difficult to def<strong>in</strong>ethe relationship between their pedagogical v<strong>is</strong>ion and ICT.• Most teachers th<strong>in</strong>k that their school leadership stresses <strong>in</strong>frastructureand digital learn<strong>in</strong>g materials (material factors) more than professionaldevelopment and v<strong>is</strong>ion (human factors).• In order to ensure that more teachers make better use of ICT,school managers would like to put greater emphas<strong>is</strong> on professionaldevelopment and on identify<strong>in</strong>g a pedagogical v<strong>is</strong>ion concern<strong>in</strong>g the useof ICT.73