ISTE Educator Standards
ISTE Educator Standards:
2.1 Learner Educators continually improve their
practice: Set professional learning goals and use
pedagogical approaches. Participate in local and
global learning networks. Stay current on
research about improved student learning
outcomes.
2.2 Leader Educators seek out opportunities for
leadership: Shape, advance, and accelerate a
shared vision. Advocate for equitable access to
educational technology, digital content, and
learning opportunities to meet the diverse
needs of all students. Model new digital
resources and tools for learning for colleagues.
2.3 Citizen Educators inspire students to
positively contribute to and participate in the
digital world: Create positive experiences.
Evaluate resources for credibility. Teach safe,
legal, and ethical practices. Model digital privacy
and protect student data privacy.
2.4 Collaborator Educators dedicate time to
collaborate with colleagues and students to
improve practice, discover/share resources and
ideas, and solve problems: Dedicate planning
time to collaborate with colleagues. Collaborate
and co-learn with students. Use collaborative
tools to expand real-world learning experiences.
Demonstrate cultural competency when
communicating with students.
2.5 Designer Educators design authentic,
learner-driven activities and environments that
recognize and accommodate learner variability:
Use technology to create, adapt, and personalize
learning experiences that foster independent
learning and accommodate learner differences
and needs. Design authentic learning activities.
Create innovative learning environments.
ISTE Student Standards:
1.1 Empowered Learner Students leverage
technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving, and demonstrating competency in
their learning goals: Students set personal
learning goals, develop strategies leveraging
technology to achieve them and reflect on the
learning process. Students build networks and
customize their learning environments. Students
use technology to seek feedback that informs
and improves their practice. Students
understand the basic knowledge of how to use
devices.
1.2 Digital Citizen Students recognize the rights,
responsibilities, and opportunities of living,
learning, and working in an interconnected
digital world: Students manage their digital
identity and reputation and are aware of the
permanence of their actions in the digital world.
Students engage in positive, safe, legal, and
ethical behavior when using technology.
Students demonstrate an understanding of and
respect for intellectual property. Students
manage their personal data to maintain digital
privacy and security.
1.3 Knowledge Constructor Students use digital
tools to construct knowledge, produce creative
artifacts, and make meaningful learning
experiences: Students use effective research
strategies to locate information. Students
evaluate the accuracy and credibility of
information. Students curate information from
digital resources using a variety of digital tools.
Students build knowledge by exploring real-
world issues and problems, developing ideas
and theories, and pursuing answers and
solutions.
ISTE Educator Standards:
2.6 Facilitator Educators facilitate learning with
technology to support student achievement of
the ISTE Standards for students: Foster student
ownership of learning goals and outcomes.
Foster classroom management of technology
and student learning strategies. Teach
computational thinking and how to use a design
process. Model and nurture creativity to
communicate ideas, knowledge, or connections.
2.7 Analyst Educators understand and use data
to drive their instruction and support students in
achieving their learning goals: provide alternate
ways for students to demonstrate competency
and reflect on their learning using technology.
Use technology to design and implement
formative and summative assessments that
accommodate learner needs. Use assessment
data to guide progress.
ISTE Student Standards:
1.4 Innovative Designer Students use
technologies within a design process to identify
and solve problems by creating new, useful, or
imaginative solutions: Students know and use a
deliberate design process for generating ideas,
testing theories, creating artifacts, or solving
real-world problems. Students manage a design
process that considers design constraints and
calculated risks. Students develop, test, and
refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design
process. Students exhibit a tolerance for the
unknown, perseverance, and the capacity to
work with open-ended problems.
1.5 Computational Thinker Students develop
and employ strategies for understanding and
solving problems in ways that leverage the
power of technological methods to develop and
test solutions: Students formulate problem
definitions for technology-assisted methods.
Students collect data or identify relevant data
sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and
represent data in various ways. To understand
complex systems and decompose problems,
students break problems into component parts,
extract key info, and develop descriptive
models. Students understand how automation
works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a
sequence of steps to create and test automated
solutions.
1.6 Creative Communicator Students
communicate for a variety of purposes using
platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital
media: Students choose appropriate platforms
and tools for meeting objectives. Students
create original works into new creations.
Students communicate ideas by creating or
using digital objects. Students publish or present
content that customizes the message for th3eir
audiences.
Noted similarities:
• Both are expected to use local and global
networks to collaborate.
• Both are to be good digital citizens.
• Both are learning and improving skills.
• Both utilize technology in lessons and work
time.
Noted differences:
• Standards made for educators are to seek
out, teach, and facilitate the use of
technology in the classroom.
• Standards for students require them to
learn, utilize, and troubleshoot different
types of hardware and software to
demonstrate understanding and become
global citizens in the digital world.
ISTE Student Standards:
1.7 Global Collaborator Students use digital
tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich
their learning by collaborating with other in
teams locally and globally: Students do this with
learners from a variety of backgrounds and
cultures. Students use collaborative
technologies to work with others examining
issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.
Students constructively contribute to project
teams. Students explore local and global issues
using collaborative technologies.