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The Indian River School District is excited to partner with the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) to support our teachers!
Currently, staff have access to the following four courses:
This course provides frameworks that educators can use to ensure all students can demonstrate their knowledge and skills
This course covers best practices for blended learning and virtual environments and helps teachers foster communication, collaboration, and classroom community within an online or blended learning space
This course helps educators design and facilitate effective, engaging, and impactful content and lessons for a digital or blended environment
This course helps educators design and facilitate effective, engaging, and impactful content and lessons for a digital or blended environment
Why ISTE?
In 2020, when schools moved to remote and concurrent teaching, IRSD teachers took on the challenge of learning many new instructional technology tools. Moving forward, our Department of Instruction saw the need to provide further learning opportunities that validated the time teachers spent in learning new technology while building their expertise in using instructional technology to support students.
ISTE-U's online courses focus on pedagogy before technology. Because they are asynchronous, teachers can learn at a time that works best for them. The video provides further explanation of why we've partnered with ISTE.
How to access the ISTEU microcourses:
Go to https://my.iste.org/login
If you have an existing ISTE account, enter your username (email) and password to log in. If you forgot your password, use ISTE’s “forgot password” link to reset. We cannot reset your password for you.
If you don’t have an existing ISTE account, click “Create an Account” and follow the steps to complete your account creation. After you have created your ISTE account, close the tab.
If you enrolled in courses during the 21-22 school year, click "my courses" on the left menu after logging in.
If you did not enroll in courses during the 21-22 school year, click this link to access the “Online Teacher Bundle”. Select “Add to Order.”Click the cart icon in the top right and then “Checkout.”
Enter the code OTBIRSD, in all caps, into the Discount Code. Then click “Apply.”
The price should update to $0, then click “Confirm Order.”
Access the courses via the following web address: https://learn.iste.org.
ISTE-U courses aligned with skills from DTGSS (Delaware Teacher Growth Support System)
In August 2021, ISTE lead teachers and administrators met to make connections between the ISTE-U courses and the core teaching skills listed in the DTGSS evaluation framework. The end product was a series of documents staff can use to search for resources to support specific skills. That crosswalk can be found here.
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