Eight recommendations for supporting teachers' technology integration, including personalized professional learning and formalized coaching¶

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Description¶

The report's discussion offers eight recommendations for education decision-makers: improve pre-service technology training, personalize professional learning, support ongoing micro-credential rollout, develop recognition and incentive systems, provide educator collaboration opportunities, formalize coaching models, invest in teachers' social and emotional health, and cultivate student and family engagement. It argues "Personalized professional learning allows teachers to identify the challenges they face in their practice, seek learning opportunities to develop new skills to address those challenges, try things out in their classroom, and reflect on the impact."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Sustained, funded efforts from the Department of Education and schools
• A clear rationale communicated for why educators should earn micro-credentials

Constraints¶

• The study examined an initial introduction to micro-credentials, and more pilots and studies are stated as needed to understand required supports

Target Learners¶

• In-service and pre-service teachers in Puerto Rico

Target Learning Goals¶

• Effective and impactful classroom technology use
• Continuous growth in technology integration skills

Affordances¶

• Impactful Technology Use Six Categories

Related Strategies¶

• CEO Forum recommendations: prepare and certify teachers for technology integration across pre-service, licensure, and in-service career stages
• Personalized, subject-specific professional support combining teacher characteristics with school-level collaboration and leadership support
• Invest in sustained, role-specific, discipline-specific professional learning and structured student AI literacy pathways across PK16
• Allocate ongoing professional development so teachers learn to evaluate and integrate AI systems appropriately

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Carol Lopez, Odelia Younge. (2021). Creating Conditions for Powerful Technology Use: Teachers' Technology Journey in Puerto Rico. Digital Promise. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/bcbf5887-7cf2-48be-b776-c19cb5ef979f