Teacher Standards

ISTE standards for teachers were developed from a grant-"Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology". In the process of developing these standards for students, educators nationwide set criteria on what teachers should know about and to be able to do with technology.

There are six standards areas with performance indicators. These standards are designed to address state, university and district guidelines.

• Technology Operations and Concepts- Teachers having basic knowledge of technology.


• Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences-being able to meet a student where they are and creating lessons that are challenging and intrinsic.


• Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum-creating lessons that meet content and performance standards.


• Assessment and Evaluation-develop forms of assessment and evaluation that measure student's level of knowledge of technology.


• Productivity and Professional Practice-engage in on-going PD and lifelong learning.


• Social, Ethical, Legal and Human Issues-promote technology and good citizenship.

ISTE Nets

ISTE Nets sets standards for students and teachers. These standards describe what students should learn from K-12 and what teachers should be able to demonstrate. An array of educators developed these standards.
There are six categories. These categories link students with technology to the standards.
After reviewing these standard (which are great!), I found that I have used several of them in my lessons.
1. Basic operations and concepts - these operations are very basic, (ex, word processing, using search engines, e-mail,etc.
2. Social, ethical, and human issues- I have spent numerous hours discussing the care of technology tools (keyboards, mouse (ball)), CD's, etc and how important it is for us to handle gently.
4. Technology communications tools-just recently, students evaluated each others papers using written and sound wave comments.
Standards 5 and 6 are challenging for me (not impossible). I'm not sure how I would encourage students to use technology for stategies for solving problems. I am hoping for samples of this.