Poll Responses
School management team (SMT) (Principal & School
governing body (SGB)) play a role in ICT integration at
schools, mention 10 responsibilities SMT play in integrating
ICT at schools
Text in Green is lecturers’ comments
Text in black “not bolded” is students’ responses.
Managing the school as an organisation (This means taking care of the overall operational of the
school with regard to ICT integration), Working with and for the community(SMT works closely with
the community, this will include different stakeholders), Managing human resources (staff)(This
includes all the teachers in the school, their usage of ICT, support and availability of human resource
that is cable to integrate ICT in their teaching and learning) in the school and. Managing and
advocating extra-mural activities (Mini workshops and creating any activities that will influence
teachers to use ICT in their teaching and learning).
* Achieving targets (Which target are you referring to? When you respond to questions make sure
your answer is solid.)
*Managing the use of financial(Yes, the SMT manage the school finances, the budget allocations to
buy resources or to conduct training sessions, Installing the security to protect the resources
teachers), human and material resources.
Ensuring that management and administrative tasks are progressively more (Your statement is not
wrong but be more specific, i.e “Ensuring that management and administrative tasks(managing
funds, taking care of infrastructure, communicating with parents about assistance with devices
where possible, providing training for teachers who do not have computer literacy skills) are
progressively more”)
Making facilities and resources available during school hours and after (Your statement refers to the
role of the coordinator but the SMT is responsible to ensure that facilities are available at the school
so that “the ICT coordinator can make the facilities and resources available during school hours and
after”)
Budgeting, costing and procurement (True, see some of my comments above)
to support the progressive increase in the usage of ICTs in the school.(Excellent “support” the SMT
ensures that purchasing new ICT tools and resources is possible at all times)
to provide and maintain the basic infrastructure that supports ICT usage in the school. (It is the role
of the SMT to insure that the classroom has enough resource to integrate ICT in teaching and
learning, this would include things like better lighting, better internet, smartboard, computers and
also safety of users from any harm the resource used my bring the end-userAnd the ICT
coordinator will control all of these features)
Assist in developing code of conduct for learners. (This will mean the policy. Yes the ICT resources at
school should be used under certain conditions so that they could be used for a longer time, if there
are no rules then anyone can do as they please and is not allowed. Can you think of some conducts
that the SMT will develop in terms of using ICT at school?)
".decide on what to buy (Not directly through but, they form part of decision based on the budget
constraints that most schools have. Then the ICT coordinator decides on what to buy since they are
more involved in instructional design)
. assist in developing code of conduct for learners,(Read comment about code of conduct)
Administer teaching and learning (In this case the HOD will be more directly involved on this role and
the HOD as well can from part of the ICT committee as well, depended on how the school is
structured)
perform professional functions (Be more specific, all role players perform professional functions)
.Manage Personnel (Read comments above)
Schedule training (ICT coordinator)
"Ensures literacy skills(This will be the responsibility of ICT coordinator)
"Facilitates (Be more specific facilitates what?)
Budget (Read comment above)
Vision (The vision and implementation of ICT in teaching and learning relies more on SMT of the
school)
Policy ()
Ensures usage of resources (A good report from the ICT coordinator can assist the SMT to ensure
usage of ICT resources as SMT manages human resources (Teachers))
Infrastructure(Read above)
Manages ICT training (Role of ICT coordinator)
For everyone to be helpful (Be more specific)
To ensure that there is discipline (True, managing human resources and learners as well by also
creating the ICT policy of the school as well they can achieve the goal of discipline)
To ensure that teaching go smoothly (Role of HOD and ICT coordinator)
Guide teachers (SMT can provide guidance in terms of motivating teachers to integrate ICT or to
inform the school that the policy of the school says ICT should be integrated at all times when
teaching and learning is conducted)
facilities, budget, infrastructure ,vision ,policy, ensure usage of resources, ensure literacy skills (Role
of ICT coordinator), communication with parents(Because of digital divide at times parents can be
told that they should borrow children tablets for some school projects or Parents can be told to help
assist learners on how to operate gadgets while they are at home etc), integrate ICT into teaching
and learning (Directly not all SMT will do that, SGB is not allowed to teach, be careful how you
structure your sentence ), schedule and manage ICT related training (Role of ICT Coordinator).
Leading learners, giving rules to the school, for school to run smoothly, discipline,good environment,
to show how things must be done, to govern the school, to ensure that everything is in order and to
make sure that everyone feels free (Very good)
1.ict planing 2. Ict policy 3. Identify funding resources 4.schedule training 5.identify and select
educational software involved in e-learning activities 6. Assist teachers with lessons plans 7.
Recommend ict tools 8. Monitor ict usage throughout the school 9. Monitor how ict is used 10
provide technical back up (No this is the role of the ICT coordinator)