Module 10 Activity 3 Planning for ICTs in your school

School’s General Vision

The school envisions a learning community in which all stakeholders work collaboratively as active partners to support and enhance continuous student achievement and professional growth of the staff in the process of nation building.

School’s ICT Vision

ICT will be used effectively to enhance teaching and learning in all areas of the school, to support collaborative and co-operative learning, to develop higher order thinking skills, to assess learning and to help all students realize their educational and social potential.

Alignment between the general vision and its ICT-specific vision:

The SWOT analysis revealed that the school’s general vision focuses on the enhancement of continuous student achievement and professional growth of staff but it does not specifically state how this will be done.  It may be argued that ICTs play a leading role in the development of students and teachers in the school, but as they are written, both visions are not specifically aligned in the role that ICTs will play. This non-alignment of the visions would most likely result in ad hoc ICT planning and development at the school. To this end, there will be a need to align the school’s general vision and the ICT vision so that together they will clearly form the guiding principle in the work that needs to be done in ICT at the school