National Technology Standards: Activities
1 - Do a search in Google on technology standards for teachers and your state. Does your state have technology standards? What are teachers expected to know?
2 - Evaluate your tech skills using these self-evaluations for teachers (below - choose 2). As you work through them, compare how the skills required have changed over the years.
- 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have (2005)
- Technology Self-Assessment For Teachers (TSAT) (2010)
- Technology Skills Every Teacher Needs (2013)
- Teacher Baseline Technology Skills Checklist (2015)
Here standards for educator technology skills are given as broader categories. What do they add? What are they missing?
- Table 3. From: “Developing instructional technology standards for educators: A design-based research study” Authors: Helen Crompton and Carolyn Sykora. Published in: Computers and Education Open, Vol 2, Dec 2021
Do you prefer a detailed checklist of specific skills, or a broader, more concept-based list of standards?
