Developing Educational Standards - Administration and Teaching

Administration and Teaching

| Developing Educational Standards Home Page | Updated 4.16.2007 | contact Charles Hill - chill @WappingersSchools.org |

Government Organizations

Arizona: Other Standards - Standards for early childhood education, adult education, career and technical education, teachers, and ELL programs.
Colorado: Technology Skills Standards for PreK-12 Schools - Links to various documents that help define what teachers and students should know and be able to do with computers and become information literate.
Colorado: Performance-Based Standards for Colorado Teachers - Eight standards that spell out what the state expects of its teachers and of its teacher preparation institutions (a pdf document).
Connecticut: Common Core of Teaching - A statement of the skills, competencies, and standards that define the state's concept of good teaching.
Connecticut: Educational Technology - About a third of the way down this page is a section called 'Administrator's Corner' that has links to six instructional technology documents. These include one on technology competencies for teachers, one for administrators, and one for students.
Delaware: Delaware Professional Teaching Standards - A 1997 document with standards in such areas as communications, assessment, and educational technology.
Delaware: Delaware Administrator Standards - A brief list of Delaware standards in five leadership areas and six standards from the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium.
Iowa: Iowa's School Leadership Standards and Criteria - Three documents, all in pdf format: one for administrators ('Iowa's School Leadership Standards and Criteria') and two for teachers ('Teaching Standards,' for all teachers and 'Model Descriptors,' designed specifically for second year teachers).
Maryland: Professional Development Standards - Standards and performance indicators to guide the creation of quality professional development programs.
Massachusetts: Professional Standards for Educations - Standards for administrators and teachers. The administrator standards fall into five areas: leadership, administration, equity, community relationships, and professional responsibilities. There are two kinds of teacher standards: standards for everyone who is not a library or a speech, language, and hearing disorder teacher - and standards for everyone else. Standards for the first group deal with planning instruction, delivering instruction, classroom management, promoting equity, and meeting professional responsibilities. Librarians have 16 standards. There are not standards listed for the speech teachers.
Massachusetts: Educational Technology - The 2001 preK-12 instrucitonal technology standards for students (Acrobat format), a technology self-assessment tool for teachers that can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat format or completed online, and recommended criteria for distance learning courses.
Mississippi: Mississippi Standards for School Leaders - Five standards, adopted in 1995, and associated statements about the kind of knowledge, disposition, and performance the state expects from its administrators.
Nebraska: Nebraska Technology Competencies - Links to the technology competencies expected of students, teachers, and administrators. Each link goes to a separate pdf.
New Jersey: Academic and Professional Standards - In 2003, the state published ten standards for teachers. Categories ranged from subject matter knowledge to professional development, with each standard having three subcategories: knowledge, dispositions, and performances. School leaders have six standards, each of which has the same three subcategories. None of the categories have short titles, the way the teacher standards do. Both sets of standards are on line in Adobe Acrobat format. This site also has a link to professional development standards for teachers that deal with the plans they create for themselves or that districts create for their staffs.
North Carolina: Core Standards for Teachers in North Carolina - Six standards that spell out expectations in the areas of content knowledge, instructional practice, working with diversity, leadership, professional reflection, and respect and care for students.
Ohio: eSchool and eCourse Standard - Ohio wants to create standards that determine the conditions under which it will support the validity of online courses.
Texas: Technology Applications TEKS - Among it documents, this site has a clear but abbreviated version of the computer technology and information literacy TEKS for students and the technology applications standards for all beginning educators.
Virginia: Technology Standards for Instructional Personnel - In 1998, the state enacted a requirement that schools implement a core set of technology standards for teachers (and, presumably, administrators) into their technology plans. The standards are based on the ones developed by ISTE.

Professional Organizations

National Council for the Social Studies: Standards for Teachers - Read through the online portions of the NCSS standards for social studies teachers (including the preparation of social studies teachers by colleges) - or purchase the book.
National Council for the Social Studies: NCSS Position Statements - The NCSS has issued several statements about assessment, including a 2003 position statement that speaks for using multiple assessment techniques rather than one high stakes test.