eMINTS Competencies4. Teacher promotes discovery, creativity, inventiveness and innovation.
a. Plans learning activities with a mind-set toward inquiry. Teacher encourages students to explore and discover rather than telling them answers or providing possible solutions. c. Promotes the use of alternative processes and strategies for solving problems, allowing students to grapple with various ideas and solutions. 5. Teacher creates a classroom environment where questioning promotes critical thinking and inquiry. b. Provides structured opportunities and strategies for students to generate a variety of questions, classify, analyze and improve their questions to promote complex ideas. 12. Teacher constructs authentic, engaging, student-centered units of study based on standards. a. Selects standards and learning skills that will be addressed and assessed in the lesson. c. Identifies what students will know and be able to do based upon the standards addressed in the unit. f. Creates lessons that accommodate students’ input and choice in how they will meet learning standards. |
ISTE Standards for Educators5. Designer: Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.
a. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs. 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. |
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