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The most appropriate first step to support the school in...

Read the hypothetical practical case below to answer questions 31, 32 and 33.


You are a second-grade teacher in your second year of teaching. Your school's technology coordinator recently retired and your principal has asked you to take on the assignment. With new technology standards just passed by the state, she tells you it's critical that the school train its teachers to teach with technology. Although your technology experience is limited to e-mail and spreadsheets, she insists that you are the most qualified teacher for the job. Reluctantly, you accept.

Your first step is to solicit ideas to improve conditions for integrating technology into the curriculum. You send each teacher a survey and a copy of the state technology standards. The resulting list of obstacles to address includes a lack of access to computers, insufficient time to learn new software, little training or support, low levels of personal confidence, and a lack of awareness of available resources. Already, you feel daunted; in helping the school fulfill the new technology standards, you wonder where to begin. And this new task is in addition to your regular teaching duties. Are you tired yet?


(Available on: https://www.edutopia.org/casenet-online-cases-teachers. Accessed in: July 2025.)

The most appropriate first step to support the school in integrating technology into the curriculum is:


A

Postpone technology use until the school provides individual computers for all teachers.


B

Organize occasional demonstrations of digital tools, without involving teachers in planning.


C

Assign the responsibility of learning and implementing technology to each teacher individually.


D

Develop a collaborative action plan, based on teachers' needs and focused on the pedagogical use of digital competencies in line with curricular guidelines.