Becoming a Spotlight Teacher
·  Are your students enhancing their learning by using technology in the classroom?

·  Are your teachers integrating classroom technologies with software and interactive Web sites?

·  Is your school improving student achievement through the use of technology?

If so, tell us your success stories. Have a student or faculty member submit a Spotlight School Application* to showcase how the students and teachers are using technology to improve student achievement.

Is your school using technology to enhance learning in ways that are...

• Effective?
• Engaging?
• Student centered?
• Aligned with Georgia Performance Standards?

Does your school have teachers who are...

• Innovative?
• Exemplary?
• Enhancing instruction?
• Promoting higher order thinking skills?

Are your students using technology to...

• Enhance their learning?
• Create and design student work?
• Help others to learn?

If so, we would like to recognize your school for using innovative technologies and "Spotlight" their success! The Spotlight program, which is administered by each of the Educational Technology Training Centers across the state, strives to:

• Recognize outstanding examples of the appropriate use of technology in the Georgia K-12 schools that have been shown to increase student involvement and achievement.
• Provide information on exemplary programs so they can be replicated at other schools.
• Stimulate the development of new and improved programs that effectively use technology to improve student achievement.
• Focus the attention of legislators on successful programs so they can be further encouraged and appropriately funded.

So how does it work?
Each month a school is chosen from those who have submitted a Spotlight School Application* and featured on your local ETC's Web site. Each SpotLight School of the Month will also receive a Spotlight School Certificate in recognition of their school being chosen.


And it keeps getting better...
Once a year, one Spotlight School will be selected by your local ETC to represent your district on Capitol Tech day. On this day, the selected team of students will share their successful technology use with Georgia legislators at the Georgia Dome.

Our mission is to provide high quality service, consulting, and professional learning for Georgia's pre-service and in-service educators to advance the effective use of technology for teaching, learning, and leading. As we collaborate with local service area school systems within Georgia, we are exposed to exemplary and innovative ways educators are using technology.


*On-site visits by the local ETC staff may be requested.