CEO Forum recommendations: prepare and certify teachers for technology integration across pre-service, licensure, and in-service career stages¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The report issues a set of dated recommendations directed at educators, administrators, and business and community leaders. Schools of education should prepare new teachers to integrate technology into the curriculum, national accreditation standards should require this by 2000, faculty should receive tools and ongoing professional development by 2001, and licensure and certification should require technology integration proficiency by 2003. For current staff, every state should develop continuing-education standards by 2000, schools should establish long-term technology-related professional development plans and proficiency standards, and every professional development program should integrate technology into all training components. Policymakers should reward integration through hiring and performance evaluation standards, and corporations should collaborate with schools and colleges of education.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Community-wide commitment, a national imperative, and adequate support at all levels, which the report says are needed for the recommendations to be achieved

Constraints¶

• The report acknowledges the recommendations are ambitious

Target Learners¶

• Pre-service teachers, current teachers and administrators, schools of education faculty

Target Learning Goals¶

• Technology integration proficiency for teaching and improved student achievement

Affordances¶

• Teacher Technology Adoption Stages

Related Strategies¶

• Investigate technology's role in community-based lifelong learning delivery as a research priority
• State policy actions across the career continuum: attract, prepare, and develop/support/retain educators
• Support gamified learning implementation with teacher training, technical preparedness, and regular tool evaluation
• Provide professional development programs so teachers learn to implement self-regulated learning strategies in their lessons
• Prepare educational staff early for digital transformation competency and train teachers to select and use appropriate communication technology tools
• Certify tutors before tutoring begins and provide professional development to supervising school staff
• Provide extensive collegial support and professional development for technology integration to avoid maintaining the digital divide
• During adoption, determine professional learning needs and secure sustainable funding for training before proceeding
• Prepare and test technology before launch, scaffold the learning curve, and leverage tech-savvy students as peer resources
• Provide faculty professional development in adult learning theory and pedagogy for career pathways instruction
• Eight recommendations for supporting teachers' technology integration, including personalized professional learning and formalized coaching
• Implement sustained educator development programs including needs assessment, coaching, communities of practice, and experiential learning
• Allocate ongoing professional development so teachers learn to evaluate and integrate AI systems appropriately
• Prioritize evidence-based technology programs and implement them with professional learning and integrated practice
• Preparing preservice teachers to implement AI-powered personalized learning in special education through professional development in technical and pedagogical expertise

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• CEO Forum on Education and Technology. (1999). School Technology and Readiness Report. Professional Development: A Link to Better Learning. The CEO Forum on Education and Technology, Year Two. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED428747