ISTE Technology Standard Rubric JOHN MUNRO August 13, 2016

Standard 1: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both faceto-face and virtual environments.
Performance Indicator
Transformative
Proficient
Developing
Beginning

Promote, support, and

model creative and
innovative thinking

Engage students in
exploring real-world
issues and solving
authentic problems using
digital tools and
resources.

regularly engage with students as

lead learner in creative thinking
activities and inspire students to
explore complex issues, generate
new ideas, create and critique
original works, and develop and
evaluate new products and
processes.
regularly involve students in
learning experiences that require
identifying and defining authentic
questions and problems, planning
for and managing their research,
and using multiple processes and
perspectives to discover, propose,
and evaluate multiple solutions.

enable students to demonstrate

creative thinking, construct
knowledge, and develop innovative
products and processes by
promoting and supporting these
activities and modeling related
knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

facilitate creative thinking and

inventiveness by modeling thought
processes and creating visual
representations of concept
development and problem solving.

research and discuss ways

students can use digital tools and
resources to enhance creative and
innovative thinking and to develop
and express their knowledge and
concepts.

facilitate activities that engage

students in planning and managing
research projects focused on realworld issues, in applying critical
thinking to solve authentic problems
and in selecting appropriate digital
tools and resources to accomplish
and enhance the process.

facilitate activities in researching

real-world problems and issues and
evaluating diverse solutions using
digital tools and resources.

develop technology-based learning

activities to engage students in
critical thinking, creativity, and
authentic problem solving centered
on real-world issues.

Promote studentreflection using

collaborative tools to
reveal and clarify
students conceptual
understanding and
thinking, planning, and
creative processes

involve students in ongoing

examination and evaluation of their
own thinking, planning, and
creativity. Encourage learners to
articulate and share their thinking
with others through technologyenhanced team work.

engage students in reflecting on

and clarifying their own thinking,
planning, and creative processes, in
correcting misconceptions, and in
using meta-cognitive thinking
strategies with collaborative tools
and environments.

facilitate and support student use of

collaborative tools to reflect on and
clarify their own thinking, planning,
and creativity.

demonstrate the use of

collaborative tools to promote
student reflection, planning, and
creative thinking.

Model collaborative
knowledge construction
by engaging in learning
with students, colleagues,
and others in face-to-face
and virtual environments

model knowledge construction and

creative thinking in a variety of faceto-face and virtual learning
environments and situations by
engaging in real-world problem
solving with students, peers, and
experts.

model knowledge construction and

creative thinking by working
collaboratively with individuals and
groups, contributing to learning both
face-to-face and virtually.

facilitate knowledge construction,

creative thinking, and collaborative
interaction by engaging in learning
with students, colleagues, and
others in either face-to-face or
virtual environments.

research and identify strategies for

facilitating knowledge construction
and creative thinking in either faceto-face or virtual environments.

Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and
to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the Standards
Performance Indicator
Transformative
Proficient
Developing
Beginning
engage students in
collaborative learning
challenges where the research
design and customize technologyglobal problems. Guide
enriched learning experiences that
learners to select a specific
adapt or create learning
explain how existing learning
Design or adapt relevant
engage students in developing
problem to investigate, create
experiences that include students'
resources could be designed or
learning experiences that
research questions about real-world
research questions, select and
use of technology tools to research adapted to include students' use of
incorporate digitals tools and
issues or problems, proposing and
employ strategies, and
and collect information online and
technology tools to research and
resources to promote student
evaluating multiple creative
determine best
to create a report, presentation, or
collect information online and to
learning and creativity
solutions, and presenting a report to
solutions. Students use
other product.
create a digital product.
an audience, either face-to-face or
technology tools to present their
virtually, for feedback.
results and share information
for application in a real-world
setting.
Develop technology-enriched
learning environments that
enable student to independently facilitate the use of technology
select and demonstrate the use of
enable all students to pursue
use technology resources to
resources to enable students to
research and discuss ways in which
technology resources that enable
their individual curiosities and manage their own learning
pursue questions and issues of
technology resources enable
student to explore questions and
become active participants in goals, plan learning strategies,
individual interest, to identify and
students to explore questions and
issues of individual interest and to
setting their own educational
and evaluate their progress and manage learning goals, to record
issues of individual interest and to
plan, manage, and assess their
goals, managing their own
outcomes.
reflections, and to assess their
plan and manage related research.
own learning.
learning, and assessing their
progress and outcomes.
own progress
facilitate student learning by
Customize and personalize
identify and develop with
recognizing preferred learning
customize technology-based
research and design learning
learning activities to address
students personalized learning
styles, work strategies, abilities, and
materials to address the learning
activities that use digital tools and
students diverse learning
experiences aligned with
developmental levels of
styles, work strategies, abilities, and resources to address a variety of
styles, working strategies,
preferred learning styles, work
students. Develop and use specific
developmental levels of individual
learning styles, work strategies,
and abilities using digital tools strategies, and abilities.
strategies that incorporate digital
students.
abilities, and developmental levels.
and resources
tools and resources to effectively
differentiate learning experiences.
engage students in the
provide students with multiple and
Provide students with multiple development and analysis of
varied opportunities to demonstrate
select examples of technologydevelop and conduct technologyand varied assessments
formative and summative
their learning, and make databased formative and summative
based formative and summative
aligned with standards, and
assessments to adjust teaching based decisions to customize and
assessments and demonstrate how
assessments to inform learning and
use resulting data to inform
and learning for increased
adapt future learning opportunities
they can be used to inform teaching
teaching.
learning and teaching
success.
aligned with content and technology
and learning.
standards.

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Standard 3: Model Digital Age Work and Learning

Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovation professional in a global and digital society.
Performance Indicator
Transformative
Proficient
Developing
engage with students in
collaborative exploration of
demonstrate and model efficient
emerging technologies and
and effective use of a variety of
Demonstrate fluency in
investigate together how these
digital tools and resources, select
plan, manage, and facilitate
technology systems and the
tools can be used in real world
tools and systems best suited to
students' understanding and use of
transfer of current
situations to solve
accomplish teaching, learning, and hardware and software best suited
knowledge to new
problems. Involve students in
assessment activities, and transfer to particular learning experiences.
technologies and situations
identifying and solving common
this knowledge to new technologies
hardware and software problems
and situations.
that occur in everyday use.

Beginning

select and use hardware and

software best suited to particular
learning experiences and plan
student learning experiences that
appropriately use these tools.

Collaborate with students,

peers, parents, and
community members using
digital tools and resources
to support student success
and innovation

employ a variety of digital

environments and media to
collaborate with project teams or
learners of other countries and
cultures to produce original works
or solve shared problems.

effectively communicate and

collaborate with students, peers,
parents, and community members
using a variety of digital tools to
support student learning problem
solving, and the production of
original works.

communicate and collaborate with

students and other stakeholders to
share information and to support
creativity, innovation, and improved
learning outcomes.

explore and demonstrate digital

tools and resources for
communicating and collaborating
with students and other
stakeholders to share information
and establish a connection
between school and home
environments.

Communicate relevant
information and ideas
effectively to students,
parents, and peers using a
variety of digital age

evaluate and use a variety of digital

tools, resources, and media to
communicate information and
ideas to a global audience,
demonstrating cultural
understanding.

select and use the most relevant,

facilitative, and effective media for
communicating specific types of
information and ideas to students,
parents, and peers.

communicate relevant information

and ideas to students, parents, and
peers using multiple digital media
formats.

research and demonstrate effective

use of digital resources for
communicating with students,
parents, and peers.

Model and facilitate

effective use of current and
emerging digital tools to
locate, analyze, evaluate,
and use information
resources to support
research and learning

use current and emerging digital

tools and resources efficiently and
effectively to deepen knowledge of
information fluency and its
application to teaching and learning
and share results with students,
parents, and colleagues.

model and facilitate effective use of

current and emerging digital tools
and resources to locate, analyze,
evaluate and use information
resources to support research and
learning for themselves and for
students.

demonstrate the use of current

digital tools to locate, analyze,
evaluate, and apply information
resources to support and
disseminate student research and
learning strategies.

identify and discuss the effective

use of current and emerging tools
and resources to locate, analyze,
evaluate, and use information
resources for research and
learning.

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Standard 4: Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

Teacher understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices
Performance Indicator
Transformative
Proficient
Developing
Beginning
advocate, model, and
teach safe, legal, and
engage students in developing a
advocate, model, and teach safe,
research and apply effective
ethical use of digital
system for promoting and
model acceptable use policies for
legal, and ethical use of technology
practices for the safe, ethical, legal
information and
monitoring safe, legal, and ethical
technology resources including
and information, including
and healthy use of technology and
technology, including
use of digital information and
strategies for addressing threats to
copyright, privacy issues, and
the responsible care and handling
respect for copyright,
technology and for determining a
security of technology systems,
cyberbullying, and security of
of hardware, software, and
intellectual property, and
system for addressing misuse of
data, and information.
systems, data, and information.
information resources.
the appropriate
technology resources.
documentation of sources
Address the diverse
examine and research issues
facilitate equitable access to digital
investigate issues related to
needs of all learners by
related to equitable access to
tools and resources, use learnerapply strategies to address the
equitable access and develop
using learner-centered
technology in school, community,
centered strategies, and employ
diverse needs of learners, including strategies for managing technology
strategies providing
and home environments including
features of universal access and
access to hardware, curriculum
to address students' diverse
equitable access to
identification and use of assistive
assistive technologies to meet the
software, and online resources.
learning styles and developmental
appropriate digital
technologies to meet the diverse
diverse needs of learners.
levels.
devices and resources
needs of students.
engage learners in researching the
responsibilities related to the use of
digital tools and resources and the
promote proper use of digital
promote and model digital
consequences of misuse in a global technology, and discuss ethical
model correct and careful use of
demonstrate digital etiquette and
etiquette and responsible
information society. Work
issues, digital etiquette, and realdigital resources and inform
identify how social interactions can
social interactions related
collaboratively with student in the
world examples of appropriate and
learners of consequences for
support student learning and
to the use of technology
development of policies and
inappropriate uses of digital tools
misuse.
responsible use of technology.
and information
procedures for responsible use of
and resources.
technology and information
resources.
develop and model
cultural understanding
involve students in opportunities to
engage students in collaborative
provide opportunities for students to
and global awareness by
develop cultural understanding and
demonstrate the use of
research and publication with
apply communications technology
engaging with colleagues
global awareness through digitalcommunication and collaboration
students and experts from other
resources to interact with students
and students of other
age communications and
tools for developing students'
countries to develop global cultural
or experts from other
cultures using digital-age
collaboration projects with students
awareness of various cultures.
understanding.
communities and other countries.
communication and
from other countries.
collaboration tools

Standard 5: Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and
demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources
Performance Indicator
Transformative
Proficient
Developing
Beginning
help develop and sustain local and actively participate in local and
explore and discuss attributes of
Participate in local and
develop plans for using local or
global learning communities to
global learning communities to
local and global learning
global learning communities
global learning communities to
exchange ideas related to creative exchange and implement ideas
communities where teacher can
to explore creative
explore creative applications of
applications of technology and to
and methods related to creative
explore creative applications of
applications of technology
technology that improve student
enhance the effective use of
applications of technology to
technology to improve student
to improve student learning
learning.
technology for learning.
improve student learning.
learning.
Exhibit leadership by
participate in developing a vision
demonstrating a vision of
adopt a shared vision of
identify and evaluate local and
for technology infusion in the
technology infusion,
technology infusion appropriate for demonstrate leadership for
global visions of technology
school and the wider community,
participating in shared
the educational environment, work implementation of the
infusion, ways of participating in
advocate for its adoption, help
decision making and
cooperatively with others in
school/district vision for technology shared decision making and
facilitate shared decision making,
community building, and
decision making, and contribute to infusion by applying it in their own
community building, and strategies
and promote the development of
developing the leadership
the development of leadership and environment.
for developing the technology skills
leadership and technology skills in
and technology skills of
technology skills in others.
of others.
others.
others
Evaluate and reflect on
current research and
contribute to the effective use of
regularly evaluate and reflect on
develop technology-based learning
professional practice on a
technology to enhance teaching
current research and apply
plans that integrate current
investigate and reflect on research
regular basis to make
and learning by conducting action
promising practices for using
research and promising
and professional practice for using
effective use of existing and research, evaluating the outcomes, existing and emerging tools and
professional practices for using
digital tools and resources to
emerging digital tools and
and sharing the results locally and resources in support of student
digital tools and resources in
support student learning needs.
resources in support of
globally.
learning.
support of student learning.
student learning
actively contribute to the
demonstrate, discuss, and present effectiveness, vitality, and selfdemonstrate and discuss with
Contribute to the
identify strategies for contributing
to parents, school leaders, and the renewal of the teaching profession colleagues the effective use of
effectiveness, vitality, and
to the effectiveness, vitality, and
larger community the impact on
by sharing promising practices for
digital resources and related
self renewal of the teaching
self-renewal of the teaching
learning of the effective use of
using technology to improve
teaching and learning strategies to
profession and of their
profession and the school
digital resources and the ongoing
student learning with others in the
enhance student learning and the
school community
community.
renewal of professional practice.
school, profession, and
teaching profession.
community.