Podcast Reflection #9: The Role of School Administrators (Kevin Honeycutt's Driving Questions 2011)

This week I listened to Kevin Honeycutt's podcast, Driving Questions 2011.

This podcast talked about school administrators and their roles. His guest was Tim Holt, a director of instructional technology.

They talked about how important it is that a school administrator models what they want from the school. If you are not modeling the behavior you want to see, no one who works underneath you will either. They discuss how principals and teachers take their cues on their actions from school administrators, and school administrators take their cues from superintendents.

They think that school administrators need to push the importance of technology and how they use it in the classroom. If they don't push it forward, teachers aren't going to use it to teach. They are going model after the administrators. They think administrators need to address what type of technology is important and how to use it.

I think that administrators play a huge role on what a teacher teaches. A teacher isn't going to use certain technology if they believe the administrator doesn't like it. I think it is important the people above me address what technology they want us to learn, and how they want us to use it in the classroom.