Comments and Progress December 12, 2006
Posted by Brian in : CPD, ICT, Uncategorized , trackbackThanks for all the comments its good to see that people from all over the country are prepared to air their feelings and work towards moving forward and effecting change.
Harry said in his comment that his colleague James Dunn, a school ICT technician, had not been eligible to apply for the ICT mentor posts in Glasgow City Council.
In my experience an ICT technician working in a school would be in a great position to act as a mentor. I know that James has done a lot to promote ICT in schools and it seems mad not to have taken advantage of his experience, knowledge and enthusiasm.
Technical support staff have the flexibility to make the time to acquaint themselves with new equipment, ICT or otherwise. We have finely honed practical skills, detailed technical knowledge, and experience of how new equipment and ICT can be applied to the curriculum to enhance the learning and teaching experience.
Yet, often our input is overlooked, training to keep our skills up to date is made difficult to access and more and more is being asked from us with ever decreasing numbers.
I believe it doesn’t have to be this way.
Things are changing with regards to technical support in Scotland (I will go into more detail about this in my next blog entry) but we still have to work on raising our profile. We must also actively canvass for change and not fear speaking up and telling people about the important role we have within a modern education environment. A start would be to get removed the words “non teaching staff” from all local authority documents.
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