It is important to assess an educators’ technology leadership knowledge and skills. Educators are responsible not only for keeping their own individual skills up to date and current, they are also responsible for making sure that the skills of their students are ready to meet the demands that a 21st century education places on them. Technological resources are not a static and teachers must keep up with new and developing trends of classroom technology use. As teachers of yesterday had to be able to, at anytime, show a struggling student the nuances of using a card catalogue or guide words in a dictionary, teachers of today must be adroit in helping students with technology applicatons such as making a blog post or accessing desired documents on the web. A teacher must also know the information that he expects the learner to know. Assessment is an import means of obtaining feedback and is an excellent means to this end.
Technology assessment could be a valuable tool for the individual. Appropriate feedback could be a valuable planning tool for a leader to make decisions about personal development. It should be used on a limited basis for a specific purpose. Requiring a leader to endure an extensive barrage of testing with no specific purpose, or repetitive tests assessing the same skills, could needlessly subject the professional to testing overload.
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