eMINTS Competencies
DTI 101 Kick off
3. Professional Practice: Educator independently seeks out avenues to extend their learning and improve professional practice. b. Actively develops and participates in a personal learning network (PLN) to explore new instructional practices and collaborate with peers face-to-face and online. c. Transfers new instructional strategies and emerging technologies into practice in the learning environment. d. Stays current with professional research in order to inform instruction. DTI 102 eim Via DTI
4. Inquiry and Innovation: Educator promotes discovery, creativity, inventiveness, and innovation in the learning environment. b. Provides opportunities for exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems. c. Promotes the use of alternative processes and strategies for solving problems, allowing learners to grapple with various ideas and solutions. 11. Authentic Lessons: Educator constructs authentic, engaging, learner-centered units of study based on standards. d. Designs real-world tasks that challenge learners to construct new knowledge, generate ideas, provide solutions to problems and/or develop new products. f. Creates lessons that accommodate learners’ voice and choice in how they will meet learning standards. DTI 103 Community of Learners
1. Classroom Collaboration: Educator establishes a learning environment where learners work effectively in teams. d. Routinely locates, organizes and implements team and class-building activities to cultivate a positive learning environment. 2. Learning Environment: Educator fosters interpersonal, non-cognitive skill development and an atmosphere of safety so individuals feel comfortable taking intellectual risks. a. Establishes learning environment routines that promote learner autonomy and self-management. d. Works with learners to develop norms that promote a positive learning environment DTI 104 Powered by Tech
14. Digital Citizenship: Educators prepare learners to be digital citizens by modeling and teaching appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. b. Creates expectations for the use of technology through a well-defined digital citizenship agreement. c. Models and teaches appropriate online behavior including maintaining a positive digital footprint. d. Stays knowledgeable of district guidelines for teaching digital citizenship to learners and is prepared to address any situation that may occur in the learning environment. DTI 105 Authentic Learning
4. Inquiry and Innovation: Educator promotes discovery, creativity, inventiveness and innovation in the learning environment. a. Plans learning activities with a mind-set toward inquiry. Educator encourages learners to explore and discover rather than telling them answers or providing possible solutions. b. Provides opportunities for exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems. 5. Questioning: Educator creates a learning environment where questioning promotes curiosity, critical thinking, and inquiry. a. Uses a variety of questioning strategies (e.g., asking intriguing questions, demonstrating how to ask complex questions, etc.) to engage learners, guide learning, foster critical thinking and encourage reflection. b. Provides structured opportunities and strategies for learners to generate a variety of questions, classify, analyze and improve their questions to promote complex ideas. c. Uses strategies that encourage learners to consider questions deeply and participate in class conversations (e.g., small-group discussions, think-alouds, think-pair-share). 3. Professional Practice: Educator independently seeks out avenues to extend their learning and improve professional practice.
c. Transfers new instructional strategies and emerging technologies into learning environment practice. d. Stays current with professional research in order to inform instruction. |
ISTE Standards for Educators
DTI 101 Kick off
5. Learner: Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning. a. Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by technology and reflect on their effectiveness. DTI 102 eim Via DTI
4. Inquiry and Innovation: Educator promotes discovery, creativity, inventiveness, and innovation in the learning environment. b. Provides opportunities for exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems. c. Promotes the use of alternative processes and strategies for solving problems, allowing learners to grapple with various ideas and solutions. 11. Authentic Lessons: Educator constructs authentic, engaging, learner-centered units of study based on standards. d. Designs real-world tasks that challenge learners to construct new knowledge, generate ideas, provide solutions to problems and/or develop new products. f. Creates lessons that accommodate learners’ voice and choice in how they will meet learning standards. DTI 103 Community of Learners
3. Citizen: Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world. a. Create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that builds relationships and community. b. Establish a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical examination of online resources and fosters digital literacy and media fluency. DTI 104 POWERED BY TECH
3. Citizen: Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world. Educators: a. Create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that builds relationships and community. c. Mentor students in the safe, legal and ethical practices with digital tools and the protection of intellectual rights and property. DTI 105 Authentic Learning
5. Educator: Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability. b. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. 2. Leader: Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.
Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. DTI 102 eim Via DTI
1. Learner: Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning. Educators: c. Stay current with research that supports improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences. 5. Designer: Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability. Educators: b. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. c. Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning. |