In the Teaching and Technology Standards Alignment linked below you will see three sets of standards used in teacher preparation: a common core of standards for beginning teacher licensing and development, issued by the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC); the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS.T); and the North Carolina Technology Competencies for Educators (NCTCE). These standards are presented in two charts which show both how INTASC standards relate to the NETS-T and the NCTCE, and how the NETS-T relate to INTASC standards and the NCTCE. A comparison of the three sets of standards is appropriate at this time to show how technology standards are integral to general standards for credentialing teachers.

The alignments were developed to serve as a resource for college faculty engaged in preparing teachers and for cooperating teachers mentoring clinical interns. They are intended to stimulate discussion about the capacity of technology to guide and influence visions, goals, aspirations, and the design and implementation of programs in teacher education. We hope the charts enable educators to see the connection between standards for teaching and learning and standards for incorporating technology into teaching. By reviewing the standards and examining these alignments, college faculty, as well as preservice and inservice teachers, will be prompted to take a closer look at possible roles that technology can take in improving education, teaching, learning, and student performance.

The UNC Teacher Education Technology Council, consisting of instructional technology specialists from each of the 15 teacher education programs in UNC, developed this alignment document. The council collaborates with the UNC Deans' Council on Teacher Education to help guide development and implementation of technology expectations in schools, colleges, and departments of education across North Carolina's multicampus public university system. The Council expresses special appreciation to Jean Camp of the School of Education at UNC Greensboro for taking the lead in developing the initial standards alignments from which this work was produced.

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