Connecting TETCs

When we started our work with Teachology, we didn't have anything as explicit as the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies to work from. We did have ISTE's Educator Standards as inspiration, and we also worked from our own School of Education Standards (though technology was only briefly referenced within two sub-standards). However, the TETCs provide the exact type of framework we needed to guide our project. Alas, we must settle for applying the competencies retroactively :(

I only came across these competencies last week when working on a writing project featuring Teachology's peer-mentorship model of professional learning. Analyzing our work in light of the TETCs was still illuminating as it helped me to identify the dimensions of educator capacities most explicitly targeted within our workshop activities. 

The most relevant TETCs identified include:

• Standard 2: Teacher educators will incorporate pedagogical approaches that prepare teacher candidates to effectively use technology: a) model using technology for accessing, analyzing, creating, and evaluating information; and c) assist teacher candidates with the selection and use of content-specific technologies to support student learning
• Standard 3: Teacher educators will support the development of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of teacher candidates as related to teaching with technology in their content area: b) provide opportunities for teacher candidates to reflect on their attitudes about using technology for teaching and for their own learning; and c) provide opportunities to develop teacher candidates’ efficacy about using technology in teaching.

Great appreciation for the development of this document and the clarity in articulating design goals for educator professional learning-- a resource I will definitely return to in the future!