More Than Money Matters Establishing Effective School- Corporate Partnerships, By Nancy Flynn, Learning & Leading with Technology; Nov. 2007, Vol. 35 No. 3, pgs (18-21)
tToday the partnership between schools and technological corporations is becoming very important because it enables the schools to receive the latest hardware and software On the other way the corporation get their benefits from profits to have their influences over the curriculum and materials which are used by the students. The author of this article seeks for the matters that principals engage in technology partnership with corporations. These partnerships bring the schools additional hardware, software and training as criteria for incoming into a variety of partnerships to enable the schools to have equipment that they could not afford.
There are some guidelines for successful partnership which include:
1- Vision. The school should have a clear vision about its expectation through partnership because even free resources have organizations which investigate about employing them in best ways.
2- Support for technology. The school should make sure that there is enough support for hardware, software and staff development to apply a technological tool.
3- School Curriculum. The school should make sure that special software is related to the curricular goal.
4- 4- Collaboration & Communication. The school needs to collaborate with corporation and know the key people within the school and the corporation to have good communication with the organization.
5- Internal Capacity. The school should make sure that it has support through the company for the maintenance and sustaining and improving the use of technology.
6- Commitment. The school should have a strong bind with the company get more benefits like lessons to the kids for motivation and writing resumes.
7- Obligations. The school should be aware of all expectations from the company
8- Product Promotion. The school should “gave back” in the manner to be in some form of product promotion. They can present their company’s product at workshops to sell them to the other schools.
9- Assessment. The school should have effective partnership to summarize evaluation in strengths, weaknesses and future instructions.
10- Longevity. The school should make sure that a partnership is worth to get benefits and work with.
Q: 1- What are the benefits of following these guidelines?
They can help to make sure that the partnership works and the public education can get benefits from it. It means there are balance between public school objectives and business objectives.
Q: 2- What are some keys before applying a hard or soft ware?
a-The power of the school to support those tools, financially, technologically, and professionally, b-The budget for additional necessary hard or soft ware and the professional development for the staff to improve the usage of technology.
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