Standards/Benchmarks:

Iowa Teaching Standards:


1. DEMONSTRATES ABILITY TO ENHANCE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND SUPPORT FOR AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GOALS.

The teacher:
a. Provides evidence of student learning to students, families, and staff.
b. Implements strategies supporting student, building, and district goals.

2. DEMONSTRATES COMPETENCE IN CONTENT KNOWLEDGE APPROPRIATE TO THE TEACHING POSITION.
The teacher:
a. Understands and uses key concepts, underlying themes, relationships, and different perspectives related to the content area.
3. DEMONSTRATES COMPETENCE IN PLANNING AND PREPARING FOR INSTRUCTION.
The teacher:
b. Sets and communicates high expectations for social, behavioral, and academic success of all students.

21st Century Skills – Iowa Core Curriculum
Demonstrate creative thinking in the design and development of innovative technology products and problem solving.
  • Design, develop, create, and/or test digital technology products.
  • Individually or collaboratively create media-rich products and display, publish, or perform them for a variety of audiences.
Understand the legal and ethical issues of technology as related to individuals, cultures, and societies.
  • Use technology efficiently and in a manner that does not harm them or others.
  • Demonstrate awareness of legal and ethical responsibilities when using copyrighted material, and how a disregard of legal and ethical responsibilities affects others.
  • Use online resources to work with others to complete a task and accept responsibility for the results.
  • Identify capabilities of contemporary technology resources.
  • Develop examples of how technology systems and services can assist them in pursuing personal interests.
Understand the underlying structure and application of technology systems.
  • Utilize technology for everyday use and understand how technology systems can be applied to various situations.
  • Select and use technology applications to conduct research, solve problems and produce finished products.
  • Identify the source of a problem with technology, and, if necessary, the appropriate support personnel needed.
  • Apply knowledge of technology to explore other technologies and be able to identify commonalities among them.