Adoption and Implementation Profiles and Tips If you understand the ISTE Standards for Educators and have considered how the standards fit within your educational institution, you may be ready to start putting them to use. This section provides ideas to implement the standards through profiles describing various educational persona scenarios. By studying the persona best matched to your position, you can gather practical ideas about how to get started.
Educator Profiles and Tips Stephen is an educator in North Carolina. He has been teaching for several years but has just been introduced to the ISTE Standards for Students. He has used technology in his teaching before but did not know the ISTE Standards for Educators could help him think about how to use technology purposefully in his class. He wants to know how to take that first step in using the standards. After reading the Educator Standards, a good way for Stephen to begin is by setting a small goal using the standards. If Stephen was new to using technology, he could even start with an indicator in a standard. The second indicator of Standard 4 may be a good choice for Stephen because he can collaborate with students to co-learn, discovering digital resources together and troubleshooting issues they come across. As Stephen is familiar with technology, it would be good for him to select a standard that he knows is something that he can improve on. As he is also new to the Student Standards, he may want to start with Standard 6 so he can work on facilitating learning with technology to support student achievement. Stephen will want to tackle one manageable piece of the Student Standards at a time, maybe focusing on just one standard or indicator as he thinks about how he is facilitating learning to help students use technology effectively for learning.
Tips to advocate for the ISTE Standards • Find another educator to collaborate with, either someone well-versed in the ISTE Standards and using technology for learning or another newbie. Try out the same goal or starting point. Compare notes and plan how to improve further. • Ask your instructional or technology coach if they know about the ISTE Standards. Ask for insight or help in understanding them. • Read and share the terms and definitions that accompany the Educator Standards in this booklet and the Student Standards on the ISTE Standards web pages. • Start a Twitter chat or discussion group for your school, district or state to explore and grow using the ISTE Standards as a base.
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