Tech coaches work closely with teachers to ensure that technology integration is meaningful for students. To help avoid teachers “using tech for tech’s sake”, tech coaches can train teachers in technology standards and in the implementation and evaluation of an educational technology instructional framework for lessons. Tech coaches drive technology curriculum mapping and scope and sequencing, and also coordinate technology skills and objectives with content area curricula.
Participants will begin with a big-picture study of the tech coaching and teaching standards provided by ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). Discussion and evaluation of sample lessons will help attendees develop skills in applying frameworks such as SAMR to determine degrees of technology integration, from substitution to redefinition. Participants will reconsider their classroom tools and digital portfolio through instructional framework lenses, and they are encouraged to bring their own curriculum for review.
