ISTE Standards: For Coaches
The coaches section of the ISTE Standards illustrates the characteristics, activities, philosophies and mindsets of today’s instructional technology coaches. Because coaches have a unique role as capacity builders and implementation experts, these standards guide coaches in ensuring that learning with technology is high impact, sustainable, scalable and equitable for all. This section also helps define the role of the coach and show how that role relates to the roles of students, educators and education leaders.
Coaches inspire educators and leaders to use technology to create equitable and ongoing access to meaningful learning.
Create a shared vision and culture for using technology to learn and accelerate transformation through the coaching process.
Facilitate equitable use of digital learning tools and content that meet the needs of each learner.
Cultivate a supportive coaching culture that encourages educators and leaders to achieve a shared vision and meet individual goals.
Recognize educators across the organization who use technology effectively to enable high-impact teaching and learning.
Connect leaders, educators, instructional support, technical support, domain experts and solution providers to maximize the potential of technology for learning.
Coaches model the Student and Educator standards, and identify ways to improve their coaching practice.
Pursue professional learning that deepens expertise with the ISTE Standards to serve as a model for educators and leaders.
Actively participate in professional learning networks to enhance coaching practice and keep current with emerging technology, innovations in pedagogy and the learning sciences.
Establish shared goals with educators, reflect on successes and continually improve coaching and teaching practice.
Coaches establish productive relationships with educators to improve instructional practice and learning outcomes.
Establish trusting and respectful coaching relationships that encourage educators to explore new instructional strategies.
Partner with educators to identify digital learning content that is culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate and aligned to content standards.
Partner with educators to evaluate the efficacy of digital learning content and tools to inform procurement decisions and adoption.
Personalize support for educators by planning and modeling the effective use of technology to improve student learning.
Coaches model and support educators to design learning experiences and environments that meet the needs and interests of all students.
Collaborate with educators to develop authentic, active learning experiences that foster student agency, deepen content mastery and allow students to demonstrate their competency.
Help educators use digital tools to create effective assessments that provide timely feedback and support personalized learning.
Collaborate with educators to design accessible and active digital learning environments that accommodate learner variability.
Model the use of instructional design principles with educators to create effective digital learning environments.
Coaches plan, provide and evaluate the impact of professional learning for educators and leaders on the use of technology to advance teaching and learning.
Design professional learning based on needs assessments and frameworks for working with adults to support their cultural, social-emotional and learning needs.
Build the capacity of educators, leaders and instructional teams to put the ISTE Standards into practice by facilitating active learning and providing meaningful feedback.
Evaluate the impact of professional learning and continually make improvements to meet the schoolwide vision for using technology for high-impact teaching and learning.
Coaches model and support the use of qualitative and quantitative data to inform their own instruction and professional learning.
Coaches model best practices for educators and leaders for securely collecting, protecting and analyzing student data.
Support educators to interpret qualitative and quantitative data to inform their decisions and support individual student learning.
Partner with educators to empower students to use learning data to set their own goals and measure their progress.
Coaches model digital citizenship and support educators and students in recognizing the responsibilities and opportunities inherent in living in a digital world.
Coaches encourage educators and students to use technology to address community challenges.
Coaches collaborate with educators, leaders and students to foster inclusive online spaces and healthy balance in their use of technology.
Coaches support educators and students to critically examine the sources and accuracy of online content and evaluate underlying assumptions, biases, and perspectives.
Empower educators, leaders and students to make informed decisions to protect their personal data, and curate the digital profile they intend to reflect.
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