successful technology leader

            I am a teacher in an elementary school and I don’t have any experience as a technology leader or technology coordinator, but when I read the chapter “district organization” I recognized the important point that can lead you to be a successful technology leader. There are various kinds of skills that the technology leader must have them. One of these skills is technical qualification that is knowledgeable about new developments in the educational technology. Although that the technology leader may not solve all technical problems but he must solve general problems, know the basic knowledge in educational technology, and be able to learn and update his technology knowledge especially because the technology world always has something new.

             On the other hand, there are nontechnical skills which are very important to be successful as a technology leader such as: leadership, organization, and communication. Those skills can be helpful when the technology leader can persuade different people with different types and levels in the district administrators and teachers to use the technology in their school and classes. Also, technology plans like planning, budgeting, and information management skills have a huge effect to be a successful technology leader. With those skills the technology leaders study what the administrators and teachers exactly wanted from the technology to improve their school and class strategies. At the same time, the budgets for the purchase and maintenance of resources correspond to the district budget. As matter of fact, teaching experience is one of the factors to be a successful technology leader for the reason that he can know which kind of technology can be more helpful and useful in the class and can be promote the level of curriculum and students.

        In addition, there are a lot of challenges that the technology leader has to deal with them, such as district budget, education software and curriculum, staff development and other many tips of challenges. Thus we can limit the challenges in the main five areas: budgeting and planning, teaching and learning, administrative computing, network operations, and desktop support that the technology leader has to give attention if he wants to be a successful leader. Finally, if you want to be a successful technology leader you should have patience in technology field because if you really like it, you will be so creative.