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. 6. Knowledge Construction: Teacher cultivates complex thinking and knowledge construction. a. Instructs students on how to use critical skills such as creating an argument, examining points of view, explaining reasoning, making assumptions, supporting arguments, etc. c. Provides tools for students to collect evidence and to clearly communicate claims. |
ISTE Standards for Educators4. Collaborator: Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems.
a. Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology. 5. Designers: 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. |
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