ISTE Standards

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ISTE Standards: International Society for Technology in Education


Teachers: driven teachers strive to model and implement ISTE Standards for students while they assess, design, and implement experiences to engage students and aid in successful learning; provide positive models for each student, colleague, and community; and enrich professional practice.  All teachers should meet each of the standards listed below.

Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity:  Teachers utilize their knowledge of technology, teaching and learning, and subject matter to facilitate experiences that improve student learning, innovation, and creativity in both visual and face-to-face environments.
-Support, promote, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
-Encourage students to explore real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
-Support student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, creative processes, and thinking.
-Model collaborative knowledge construction by being involved in learning with colleagues, students, and others in virtual and face-to-face environments.

Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments:


-Create or adapt relevant learning experiences that include digital tools and resources to encourage student creativity and learning.
-Develop technology-filled learning environments that allow all students to pursue their individual goals and become involved in setting their own educational goals, assessing their own progress, and managing their own learning.
-Provide students with many formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform teaching and learning.
-Customize and personalize learning activities to aid in students' diverse learning styles, abilities, sand and working strategies using digital tools and resources.


Model digital age work and learning:


Teachers have knowledge, work processes, and skills representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital world.
-Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of knowledge to new technologies and systems.
-Collaborate with students, peers, and parents using many digital age media and formats.
-Facilitate and model effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, use, and evaluate information resources to support research and learning.


Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility:


Teachers exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices because they understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture.
-Model, advocate, and teach legal, safe, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, the appropriate documentation of resources, and intellectual property.
-Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources.
-Model and encourage digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.
-Create and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools.


Engage in professional growth and leadership:


Teachers always improve their professional practice, exhibit leadership, and model lifelong learning in their school and community.
-Participate in local and global learning communities to learn more about creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
-Show leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
-Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice to make use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.
-Contribute to the vitality, effectiveness, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.